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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-30-2019, 05:35 AM
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Eating stinkbugs? No. I don't think my stomach can handle them :)
Back when I was working in Timor island, I tried eating some kind of grilled caterpillar or larva that grows on a teak tree, out of courtesy. Our host said it's delicious and tastes like crab. I think they mistook the "b" with "p"... And they also brought their best "longevity" drink to go with it: sopi janin rusa (local spirit with deer fetus). I didn't hit the jackpot during that dinner, but I think it cost me several years of my life. :lol:
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-30-2019, 02:50 AM
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Ah thank you for the clarification! Now that I look closer they are different in shape and color from Popillia. Yeah, I think I should try meeting a local entomologist or one of my childhood friend who's working at a nature conservation...
Wow stinkies come in many different shapes and sizes! Guess I should call that huge bug I saw, "Big Stinky" :) . It was almost as long as my index finger. I didn't know they can grow that big. And I don't think it's edible too...
Ahhhh that sure looks like a positive ID! Interesting, their genus name has the same origin as Greek Hoplites... learned something new. Thank you for this information!
And now that you put it that way, indeed I may have just disturbed a pair of beetle's most intimate times :lol:
I thought they were brawling since it ended up with the one on top being thrown overboard by the one below. But I don't know if it was really brawling or some kinky maneuver of beetle kind...
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-29-2019, 04:39 AM
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Thank you!
Ah so they're pests in the U.S., and to control them people uses micro-organisms. Quite a biological warfare in the garden... I hope the milky spore bacteria don't cause even more harm to the environment. Thank you for the information!
Ok, so here's another bug I photographed in Bali, looks like a large Coreidae / Leaf-footed bug. They're not much of a pest, but some people are afraid of it due to its large size. This guy's almost 4 inches long.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-26-2019, 03:28 AM
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Brawling Beetles on top of a blooming Nemophila... or were they bugs? Any insight would be appreciated :)
Taken last May with K-3 II & SMC A 100mm F4 Macro at Showa Memorial Park, Tachikawa, Japan.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-03-2019, 12:31 AM
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Thank you! The renovation is currently underway, and probably will take a month to finish. The pest control guys found TWO nests inside the wall, so that wall had to be taken down and rebuilt. Turns out there's a small hollow space between my house's wall and the neighbor's, and the termites built their home in between... while eating the wooden beams in my house AND my neighbor's. When their nest gets even bigger, they expand into the wall by tunneling through the cement and bricks. Smart little buggers. It's unfortunate that we can't coexist with termites, so they had to go.
In the meantime, here's a pic of a forest ant I took during my trip to Bali last August, taken with K-3 II & smc A 100mm F4 Macro:
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-25-2019, 09:56 PM
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Not quite the usual insects posted here, but they're still insects though... Turns out I had a termite infestation in one of the wooden support beams in my house. Apparently these pesky little buggers were able to chip away at the surrounding wall and made a nest inside the wall, all the way to the support beam. They made several holes in my room where it's closest to the beam. When they burst out yesterday it was like a scene from Starship Troopers or Star Craft's Zerglings coming out of a Nydus Canal.
The really bad news is since it's going to set me back quite a lot to fix this (pest control and replacing the support beam), it looks like I won't be able to get the new Pentax camera next year...
Photo taken with K-3 II + reversed Exakta 28mm f 2.8 + SN600 FGZ Flash unit.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-18-2019, 11:46 PM
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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 |
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-27-2019, 02:12 AM
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Taken during my trip to Bali last year. Handheld w/ K-5 II + SMC K 135mm F3.5 + Extension tube.
At this angle I think the dragonfly looks like an attack helicopter...
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