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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
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Digger wasp with some kind of larva/grub/caterpillar for the kids.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-19-2024, 06:11 AM
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Three very small insects on black-eyed Susan flowers. (leafhopper, heteropteran with piercing mouth parts, and a fly)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-25-2023, 06:59 AM
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great spangled fritillary, my favorite local butterfly, seen all too rarely in recent years
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-19-2023, 05:19 AM
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Assorted local insects. It's getting much more difficult to locate insects to photograph. After they cleared several meadows in a local wildlife area and planted some kind of grass I've never seen growing there, for all practical purposes the insects were gone.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-13-2023, 07:04 PM
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Two very small insects from a few days ago. The spotted beetle is no more than 4mm long so the posted image is a deep crop.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-17-2023, 03:33 AM
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The larvae down in their vertical tunnels are also voracious predators. Their physical design and method for capturing other insects is really interesting, an evolutionary development comparable to ant lions.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-11-2023, 06:57 PM
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Tiger beetle, 160%. These fellows are very alert and quick to run or fly. Very difficult to get close to one.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-30-2023, 09:22 AM
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An insect probably from the group loosely called horseflies. SCAN
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-29-2023, 04:26 AM
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I found an insect that didn't flee when I moved the lens closer.. SCAN
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-26-2023, 03:24 AM
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I noticed that bee about 7PM position from the swallowtail in the first image. The edges of its wings in that image also look a bit frayed.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-25-2023, 10:32 AM
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The butterfly in the image just above is what I would call a tiger swallowtail. Looks as though that individual has been around for a while, judging from the damaged wings. Perfect focus on its body. Nice crisp detail on the head, proboscis, body hairs, etc. Fine work.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-19-2023, 06:19 AM
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Tiger swallowtail, the showiest of local butterflies, but not my favorite. SCAN
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-14-2023, 11:02 AM
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Scans of insect images taken before 2010
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-13-2023, 12:19 PM
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Dog bane beetle and green lacewing fly. In my area there should also be a brown lacewing fly of about the same size, but I've never seen one.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-13-2023, 09:15 AM
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You are too kind, but I can take it.:p
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-13-2023, 07:03 AM
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four SCANS of insect images from the film era. These never look as good as a modern digital image. No EXIF but I know the mosquito was photographed with a 100mm bellows Takumar (original pre-set version) reverse mounted on a 200mm SMCA f4. The next twowere taken with either a 400mm f4 macro or a Tokina 90mm f2.5 macro, more likely the 200mm as that was my preferred lens for field macro work. The water strider was in a studio setting so more likely taken with the Tokina.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-07-2023, 10:25 AM
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Another group of old images - all taken 2010 or before.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-06-2023, 04:01 AM
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A collection of older insect - and one spider - images. Many if not all of them were probably posted years ago.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-02-2023, 10:34 AM
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An "oil beetle" genus Meloe |
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
02-01-2023, 04:35 AM
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Thanks for the compliments and really glad yoy ike the image. The fly was cooperative, it just stood absolutely still while I got closer for the shot. You'd think it was wearing one of those head clamps from the wet-plate era.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-30-2023, 10:54 AM
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I know what's been bugging you lately. Numerous interesting insects in your last two posts.
Here's a caterpillar that should go on another thread, but I'll put it here.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-29-2023, 04:40 PM
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Ladybug beetle and the moth. Th latter is probably a male judging from the extremely feathery antennae visible at the lower right just in front of its eye.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-28-2023, 03:45 PM
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AF left the wasp slightly into the bokeh.
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