Eyes Made for Reading, Pt. 2 - _TNY_4875S2
It really looks like this female awl robberfly (Neoitamus sp.) is trying to spell her way through the sentence here - and I'm with her. I can't remember what paper it is she is standing on, but those are not Swedish words.
It is possible that this was inside my mother-in'law's greenhouse and that I was helping Mrs. Robber outside and she chose to remain on the paper I used to transport her - and it being some sort of multi-language instruction manual for something. The eyes also look like they have water drops on them, but I can't recollect where those came from.
This could be a common awl robberfly (Neoitamus cyanurus), but there are two more Neoitamus species in Sweden and it is impossible to tell which of them this is without literally taking it apart and neither I nor Mrs. Robber was interested in that.
This shot is made from two exposures with different parts of the fly in focus, but the focus stacking was done manually in Photoshop as Zerene Stacker couldn't come to grips with the (minor) movement between shots.
Par 1 isn't focus stacked - but at a higher magnification here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53237591747/
Eyes Made for Reading, Pt. 2 - _TNY_4875S2
It really looks like this female awl robberfly (Neoitamus sp.) is trying to spell her way through the sentence here - and I'm with her. I can't remember what paper it is she is standing on, but those are not Swedish words.
It is possible that this was inside my mother-in'law's greenhouse and that I was helping Mrs. Robber outside and she chose to remain on the paper I used to transport her - and it being some sort of multi-language instruction manual for something. The eyes also look like they have water drops on them, but I can't recollect where those came from.
This could be a common awl robberfly (Neoitamus cyanurus), but there are two more Neoitamus species in Sweden and it is impossible to tell which of them this is without literally taking it apart and neither I nor Mrs. Robber was interested in that.
This shot is made from two exposures with different parts of the fly in focus, but the focus stacking was done manually in Photoshop as Zerene Stacker couldn't come to grips with the (minor) movement between shots.
Par 1 isn't focus stacked - but at a higher magnification here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53237591747/