Thematic Show me your insects

**DW58** · 08-11-2019, 02:56 PM - **1 Like**

Leafhopper Assassin Bug Nymph.

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**wtlwdwgn** · 08-11-2019, 03:41 PM - **1 Like**

K10D and A 70-210.

**WPRESTO** · 08-11-2019, 03:55 PM - **1 Like**

Giant water bug with back full of eggs. A captive specimen at a zoo, Scan

Thagomizer · 08-12-2019, 06:58 PM - **1 Like**

Life and death in Queen Ann's Lace.

Reversed 18-55 II

**WPRESTO** · 08-13-2019, 03:25 AM

I don't know the insect in the first image, the second is another shot of that dog bane beetle.

mohb · 08-13-2019, 05:28 AM - **3 Likes**

A couple from yesterday

**tmlawes** · 08-14-2019, 11:08 AM - **1 Like**

Just got a new ring light for macro. Tried it out on a butterfly.

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**WPRESTO** · 08-14-2019, 01:08 PM

Scan from a chrome. Even in the Film Era I was chasing after bugs. Notice the cloth-like texture on the dark underside of the leaf. That's one of the exasperating artifacts that appears in scans. Viewing the slide either with a slide viewer or projected on a screen, no such texture would be visible.

**tmlawes** · 08-14-2019, 02:39 PM - **2 Likes**

The great golden digger wasp.

**WPRESTO** · 08-14-2019, 06:21 PM

A little hoverfly on a pink (scan) and a green leafhopper, one of the most common species I see (NOT a scan).

**DW58** · 08-15-2019, 08:09 AM - **1 Like**

I tried and failed to identify this fly. It seems to be eating another insect. Kind of hard to see but there's another bug under it. I thought the red smear was appropriate given the carnivorous act taking place.

**WPRESTO** · 08-17-2019, 01:26 PM - **1 Like**

Rhinoceros beetle. I would have preferred to bring this fellow home, clean off the leaf litter and photograph it with a proper macro lens, but these fellows are uncommon to rare, so I thought it better to leave him where I found him and just go with these mediocre shots taken with a tiny-sensor SPPS.

Thagomizer · 08-18-2019, 06:59 PM

Bumblebee sunning.

idfox63 · 08-18-2019, 11:46 PM - **2 Likes**

Leaf mantis hiding among flower buds in Campuhan Ridge hiking track, Bali.
K-3 II + smc A 100mm F4 Macro | 1/50s | f10 | ISO 200 |

photolady95 · 08-19-2019, 01:50 PM

You guys, thanks for keeping this thread alive. I appreciate it.

My brother continues to kill the paper wasps and the lubber grasshoppers.

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photolady95 Otis Memorial Pentaxian Join Date: May 2009 Location: Cruising the forum watching his back Photos: Gallery \| Albums Posts: 12,712 Original Poster	You guys, thanks for keeping this thread alive. I appreciate it. My brother continues to kill the paper wasps and the lubber grasshoppers.