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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-13-2016, 08:39 AM
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Looks like a species of buprestid (Buprestidae) referred to as jewel beetles or metallic wood boring beetles due to both there appearance and ability to bore into very hard things. .
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-08-2015, 09:22 AM
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Oebalus ornatus eggs on blade of rice in rice field in Dominican Republic.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-07-2015, 09:16 PM
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A pair of ornate rice stink bugs Oebalus ornatus on rice in the Dominican Republic.
K-5 and DA 100 Macro WR
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
01-07-2015, 09:12 PM
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A pair of flies in Tachinidae taken in a rice field in the Dominican Republic in May 2012. It was taken hand held with a light wind.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
04-21-2014, 12:12 PM
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That 3rd one is actually a beetle larvae. It is using poop (aka frass) as camouflage .
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-25-2012, 06:31 PM
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Yes, the common name of those is the eastern lubber grasshopper. It also can be black as an adult and is known as the devils horse in Louisiana. The scientific name is Romalea guttata (formerlymicroptera). The adults have various color patterns. The one I posted from S.A. is called the milkweed grasshopper.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-25-2012, 04:04 PM
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It is a grasshopper. However, I took that in South Africa. We have some along the gulf coast that are black with a yellow trim.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-06-2012, 01:00 PM
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For the exotics, i.e. non-native ones, they have to rear the appropriate plant (s) for them. The Cairn's birdwing is an Australian species. I haven't been there in a long time, but Calloway used to be a nice place to visit. There is one in Gainesville, FL at the Florida Museum of Natural History called the Butterfly Rainforest.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-06-2012, 08:32 AM
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I would say it is a Cairn's then. Butterfly gardens have exotics butterflies.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-05-2012, 09:51 PM
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It looks a lot like a Cairn's birdwing. Where were those taken? The macro portrait is very good for ID.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-05-2012, 08:17 PM
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Birdwing? or black swallowtail? in the family Papilionidae.
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08-05-2012, 12:46 PM
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Hangman, I like the robber fly taking out a flesh fly!
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-04-2012, 02:44 PM
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That is a flesh fly, family Sarcophagidae.
There are ~ 800 species in the Bee Fly family. I don't think that is the one with tiger bee fly as the common name but it could be in that family. The species range in size from small to large like this one and the tiger bee fly.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-22-2012, 10:12 PM
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Amber Wing taken with a Tamron SP 180/2.5 adaptall 2 and K200d (different angle than post 428)
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-19-2012, 08:52 AM
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*ist D & DA 40 Ltd
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-17-2012, 12:09 PM
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K200d & Tamron SP 180mm/2.5
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-12-2012, 12:30 PM
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Nice set of lynx spider images hangman!
If there is such a thing as "Fru Fru" spiders, these guys are it, lol.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
06-11-2012, 09:18 AM
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Lynx Spider . . . ( know, it has too many legs :p)
K20d & Sigma 105 EX DG
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-13-2012, 01:18 PM
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That shot could compete in some insect photo salons.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-13-2012, 01:16 PM
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One of this series made it on the cover of an entomology journal in December. The top one taken with the Sigma 105mm EX DG macro but the one on the cover was with the DA 35mm LTD (bottom).
Sigma 105mm EX DG macro
Pentax DA 35mm macro LTD
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
03-13-2012, 01:11 PM
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Here are a couple from microscope slide mounts. Taken with K20d through Olympus phase-contrast microscope.
Crab louse, Phthirius pubis
Hymenopteran parisitoid (I have posted it elsewhere here at PF in the past).
Aphytis proclia (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae)
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