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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-08-2019, 07:28 AM
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Nice. I think those are male and female Calico Pennants.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-14-2018, 08:54 AM
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I'm sure that if I tried to start a thread that duplicated another one the problem would be quickly fixed by a moderator. Somehow that didn't happen in this case.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-18-2018, 04:41 AM
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It's certainly an attractive one - sort of combines a bit of our fritillary and buckeye. Do you not have an equivalent to BugGuide in Australia?
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-31-2018, 08:28 AM
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I put up a small UV light and a sheet sometimes when we stay at a cottage up north. I refrigerate the moths overnight to quiet them down and photograph and release them in the morning. I agree the number of species and subtlety of differences between moths can be overwhelming. We have the Peterson Guide, which is quite good and covers your area but not the southwest. It says there are over 11,000 recognized species in North America. We once met one of the authors, who is also a bird artist and painted quite a few of the bird pics in the National Geographic guide.Good luck with your search!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-31-2018, 06:59 AM
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I agree - the blue patterning is very different from anything I have seen. You could always post a picture for an expert to identify in bugguide or, I think, iNaturalist. I have done that in bugguide several times and often get a response within a few hours.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-15-2017, 09:14 AM
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Your link is to the first edition (the one I have). The second edition has a dragonfly on the front.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-15-2017, 08:40 AM
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Several years ago when I was testing out my newly purchased macro lens I got a fairly decent pic of a beetle but couldn't identify it. I located Stephen Marshall at Guelph University on the Internet and asked him. His reply: "It's a Dogbane Beetle. It's on the cover of my book". I didn't know about the book ("Insects: their Natural History and Diversity, with a photographic guide to insects of Eastern North America") and was so embarrassed I went out and bought it (it's a real doorstopper and not cheap)! Since then it's been a very useful resource and now I notice there's a second edition, which I won't be buying anytime soon.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
10-11-2017, 06:59 AM
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Perhaps Red-legged Grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum)? The colour is often variable. Great shots, as usual.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-18-2017, 01:42 PM
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I don't think I had a pixel count when I was on Photobucket so I subscribed to both these threads but only posted on the other one. I still do despite going over to Flickr, which shows you the number of pixels on each side. None of the other threads I visit have pixel limitations - I just don't want the added complication.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-09-2017, 09:07 AM
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You certainly caught the iridescence very well.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-08-2017, 02:44 PM
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Hi rgnief
It would be helpful to know the actual location and the time of year the shot was taken. I have a good guide (Peterson) to moths of eastern Canada and the USA, but I do find them difficult.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
12-03-2016, 02:17 PM
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Noel - it's a Plume Moth. We have them in North America and I saw my first one this past summer.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-02-2016, 05:43 PM
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Phasmids are a major plot element in the movie "Master and Commander" - well worth a look if you haven't seen it.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-22-2016, 03:40 PM
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While I appreciate the need for moderation and the voluntary effort this entails, I don't see this assumption of "ownership" anywhere else on the forum - let alone ownership of an entire branch of the animal kingdom.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-22-2016, 02:52 PM
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And I think I'll post my insect pics elsewhere in future.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-19-2016, 03:31 PM
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Ebony Jewelwing and a Bluet from today.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-13-2016, 03:08 PM
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Not my best insect shot but this is the first Ichneumon wasp I've seen - they parasitize other insects and their larvae - and sometimes target their parasites (life can get complicated)!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-12-2016, 11:01 AM
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From a short walk around a local nature reserve this morning
Common Ringlet
And a couple of skimmers:
Slaty Skimmer (immature) Edit - think it's a female Widow Skimmer, not a Slaty
Common Whitetail (female)
My DA* 300mm isn't working (one of the brass contact points has broken off) so these were done with the Tamron 90mm SP Di macro and the Pentax 1.4x teleconverter
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
05-10-2016, 06:50 AM
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I've photographed these moths a couple of times find the pearly gray eye never looks as if it is in focus.
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