Wildlife pictures

[brancho]

Nice toad Mike

Craig that is one of the few things we did not see whe I was in Canada recently great shot mate.

I thought I'd introduce myself with a recent moose shot (who looks like he has a cheeky grin)! This is a bull moose (he's growing his antlers). While the moose in Colorado are the smallest subspecies, they can still weigh around half a metric ton.

Forest Buffet by Craig Palmer, on Flickr

 

[brancho]

Here is a bluebottle

Bluebottle by Alf Branch, on Flickr

 

[highcountry]

Nice macro, Alf! I've been enjoying your pics on this thread.

Here's another moose shot. This time, the antlers are fully developed.

Grace and Power by Craig Palmer, on Flickr

 

[brancho]

Thanks Carig another very nice shot

Here is a spider I shot the other day wrapping a leaf hopper
Look at the palps on that.


Spider wraping a meal 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Spider wraping a meal 1 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Here is a fly also shot with my sigma 105


A fly by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Here are some shots taken with my recently aquired olympus 60 mm f2.8 mavro lens with which I am having a love hate relationship as the focus by wife MF is far to slow and long winded to be of use.


A fly by Alf Branch, on Flickr


A fly 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Bluebottle by Alf Branch, on Flickr




What do you think?

 

[Harvestman]

Your flies just get better and better Alf. Superb work. The spider, by the way, is a juvenile male 4 spot spider, Araneus quadratus. The unfortunate hopper is Cicadella viridis.

 

[brancho]

Your flies just get better and better Alf. Superb work. The spider, by the way, is a juvenile male 4 spot spider, Araneus quadratus. The unfortunate hopper is Cicadella viridis.

Thanks Mike I new the hopper but was unsure about the spider as he is small.

 

[kimbo]

Here's a pic I took ages ago, just as digital cameras were becoming affordable.

 

[Harvestman]

That's an excellent shot Kimbo.

 

[brancho]

Here are a bunch of shots taken lately


1 a bark fly


Living on my bin by Alf Branch, on Flickr


2 what I think is a Figwort sawfly


Figwort sawfly by Alf Branch, on Flickr


3


Soldier beetles mating by Alf Branch, on Flickr


4 A couple of shots of a bee resting and cleaning itself


Bumble bee 1 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


5
Bumble bee 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


6 just a fly


Fly by Alf Branch, on Flickr



7 a marsh snipe fly


Marsh snipe fly by Alf Branch, on Flickr


8 a hover fly


Rhingia Campestris 1 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

 

[Robson Valley]

Not mine, just a link. Don't think the local prime boars are quite this big.
https://www.facebook.com/WestCoastN...04072.391394594261224/795461803854499/?type=1

 

[Harvestman]

Got one! I know these are common in the southern parts of the UK now, but wasp spiders are still very rare in Wales.

[/url]Got one! by Michael Kilner, on Flickr[/IMG]

A zombie fly! (no idea what species)

[/url]Zombie fly by Michael Kilner, on Flickr[/IMG]

And a bad picture of a grinning death's head, a.k.a. a Woodland Grasshopper

[/url]Only when I laugh by Michael Kilner, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[Harvestman]

This isn't really a macro, just a very big fly! Tachina grossa, a bumblebee mimic, and it doesn't mimic small bumblebees either! No need for the Raynox macro attachment with this one!

[/url]A big fat Flyday! by Michael Kilner, on Flickr[/IMG]

A Hairy Shieldbug Dolycoris baccarum on my finger

[/url]Hairy shieldbug by Michael Kilner, on Flickr[/IMG]

My first find of the spectacular bug Corizus hyoscyami.

[/url]Corizus hyoscyami by Michael Kilner, on Flickr[/IMG]

 

[Seoras]

Spotted this little bit of action while on holiday in France last month

 

[Harvestman]

Spotted this little bit of action while on holiday in France last month

That's really neat, and unless that is a yellow form of Thomisus onustus (and I'm not aware that it has different colour forms) then the spider is not a species that is found in the UK.

 

[quietone]

Amazing photo's chaps. Really inspiring. I have to remember to take my macro lens, always forget it.
Anyway, saw these today, sunning themselves.

 

[Harvestman]

I glimpsed the tail of a lizard the other day, but those are cracking shots.

 

[brancho]

I glimpsed the tail of a lizard the other day, but those are cracking shots.

Yeah nice lizard shots I would like to see them myself.

 

[brancho]

Here are some shots from around the house of Zebra Jumping spiders Salticus Scenicus



This little guy was eating a barkly but I missed the hunt and capture as I went inside taken with the Sigma and three extension tubes. It is female I think but a juvenile



Barkfly for dinner by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Barkfly for dinner 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Barkfly for dinner 3 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


This a larger specimen I observed a few minutes earlier. It lined up against a harvestman and jumped at it I saw the jump but the next frame had neither of them in it I found the spider again a few cm away but did not find the harvetsman



Prowling by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Stalking prey by Alf Branch, on Flickr


This little one from a last week with a springtail



Springtail for dinner by Alf Branch, on Flickr

 

[Harvestman]

Those are great and as usual I'm impressed with your depth of field. How do you do that?

A harvestman is a bit ambitious for a little spider and almost certainly got away.

 

[brancho]

Those are great and as usual I'm impressed with your depth of field. How do you do that?

A harvestman is a bit ambitious for a little spider and almost certainly got away.

I think the harvestman droppped off the wall Mike to get away.