Wildlife pictures

[Elen Sentier]

Wow !!! wow !!!

 

[Niels]

I like the picture too! Good macro skills!

 

[mrs fish]

Great pics guys will have to put some of my own up soon

 

[brancho]

Wow! What a picture!

Looks like a Syrphus, probably S. ribesii.

Sorry I forgot ask his name.

Ps thanks for the comment and ID.

I like the picture too! Good macro skills!

So do I and mine are adequate at best.

 

[brancho]

Boy are bumble bees hard to capture. All taken with my E-620 and 35mm 3/5 macro and Nissin Di466 and homemade deflector

My first half decent bumble but I need to keep trying


Bumble bee 08-07-13 by alf.branch, on Flickr

Also some hover flies which are much easier I think.


Hover fly 08-07-13 1 by alf.branch, on Flickr


Hover fly 08-07-13 2 by alf.branch, on Flickr



Hover fly 08-07-13 3 by alf.branch, on Flickr

All C&C welcome I am still in need of practice and skill.

 

[Harvestman]

Blimey Alf, I can't wait to see what you do when you think you are good at this!

That last picture shows the simple ocelli eyes on the forehead region, as well as the big compound eyes. Lovely shot.

If I dig out my hoverfly guide I could probably identify that drone fly in the second shot to species, given the detail you have on it. Might do just that...

 

[Turnstone]

Wonderful insect shots! Brancho, there is not much you can do to make these better!

One picture from sunday. Summer is here!

 

[daveO]

I'll see your one small tortoiseshell and raise you 2 small tortoiseshells

 

[Harvestman]

No offence Dave, but you have quantity and Turnstone has quality.

 

[daveO]

How about something a bit more abstract?

 

[Harvestman]

Both of yours are really good Dave

Love that second one though.

 

[Harvestman]

Some more inverts for people to looks at

Mangora acalypha, sometimes called the Neat orb weaver

Two baby grasshoppers, if anyone fancies a punt at what species they might be.

A nursery spider female, Pisaura mirabilis, sitting near the nursery web where her babies are hatching. She guards them until they are independently mobile.

A caterpillar of the cinnabar moth, on ragwort

A six spot burnet moth (compare with the narrow bordered 5 spot burnet I posted earlier in this thread)

And a Small Skipper. This one is a male.

 

[Niels]

I like how you can get the backgrounds so blurry. My camera has automatic focus so I only get that when I'm lucky.

 

[Harvestman]

Telemacro lens. Sometimes I find that the depth of field is a bit limited though (look at the spider pictures above). I'm still learning with the camera and am working on how to get the depth of field that I want. I'm getting better slowly, but the good thing is that the learning is fun.

Actually, that seems to apply to most bushcraft activities.

 

[wattsy]

A dark Ringlet butterfly

 

[Harvestman]

Very dark

Here's a Ringlet and a Gatekeeper, for comparison.

 

[daveO]

It's nice to see a gatekeeper and ringlet side by side. The gatekeeper looks to have a similar pattern to the ringlet just much paler which I never noticed before.

I found a moth on the wall of my house last night. It seemed to be laying eggs in a crack in the render.

 

[Harvestman]

That looks like the famous Peppered Moth Biston betularia

Very nice find.

My Gatekeeper confused the heck out of me because I couldn't see the double wing spot.

 

[daveO]

I think something in my garden is attracting moths at the moment. I also found this nice garden tiger which looks a bit battle scarred sadly.

 

[Harvestman]

Excellent. I saw a scarlet tiger moth up in Mid Wales the other day, but it was in flight and I couldn't get a shot.