Wildlife pictures

[brancho]

Arya
That Lynx shot is great I liek that.

Mike
Those last three shots are very nice mate esepcially the beetle you are putting that lens to good use.

 

[brancho]

Here are some shots from earlier this year that did not get processed or put on Flickr


A hoverfly



hoverfly by Alf Branch, on Flickr


I think it is a dagger fly


Dagger Fly by Alf Branch, on Flickr


A crane fly with a bad case of mites


Crane fly with mites by Alf Branch, on Flickr


A wasp


wasp by Alf Branch, on Flickr


A bumble bee


Bumble bee_ by Alf Branch, on Flickr


A moth that was on our kitchen wall


Small moth by Alf Branch, on Flickr

 

[Arya]

Wondeful photos, as always!
I never knew insects could be full of mites!

 

[brancho]

Wondeful photos, as always!
I never knew insects could be full of mites!

I have seen bees covered in mites in photos and have seen them on other things even a bees tongue

Here is one on a fly

Fly-with-mite by Alf Branch, on Flickr

This explains more
http://what-when-how.com/insects/phoresy-insects/

 

[Arya]

Thank you for giving me nightmares tonight

 

[Zingmo]

Big fleas have little fleas,
Upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so, ad infinitum.

Z

 

[brancho]

Here are some shots from a short garden safari the other day. I found lots of Globbies on the fence today and the odd one on the bin.


Dicyrtomina saundersi 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Dicyrtomina saundersi by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Dicyrtomina Minuta by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Collembola by Alf Branch, on Flickr

 

[brancho]

Here are some more


Collembola 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Collembola 3 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Dicyrtomina-saundersi 3 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

 

[Chris the Fish]

These are excellent Alf

As usual 😊

(Must get my camera out)


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[daveO]

I was cleaning some nest boxes today and came across one stuffed with oak leaves. I can't think who'd be responsible for this...

 

[Tony]

ha ha, that's a great picture Dave

 

[Harvestman]

Brilliant picture.

 

[PiterM]

Just a lucky shot when I was in the mountains two weeks ago...

 

[BushrangerCZ]

excellent find... I have been last year on "Orla Perć" in Polish mountains...

 

[brancho]

Here are some shots from my outing this year in the garden hunting sprintails and whatever else I may find. I was trying out my new camera my Olympus OMD E-M5 MkII with the sigma 105 and 25 mm tube plus Raynox so not the highest mag.



First thing that really got me interested was this spider which happens to have two sprintails next to it which are Sminthurinus niger



Spider found under log by Alf Branch, on Flickr


This guy was tiny so it is a heavy crop


Collembola by Alf Branch, on Flickr


A big one Dicyrtomina-saundersi



Dicyrtomina-saundersi by Alf Branch, on Flickr




This one was practicing for the Olympics or it thought I should be
Katiannidae Gen1 nov sp nov I think.



Katiannidae Gen1 nov sp nov by Alf Branch, on Flickr

 

[quietone]

Awesome shots. I wonder, if there are even smaller bugs on the backs of those?

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[Arya]

Your photos are insanely detailed! I love them And I am usually not very fond of creepy crawlies. In your photos they look like tiny dinosaurs.

 

[brancho]

Awesome shots. I wonder, if there are even smaller bugs on the backs of those?

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Thanks and yeah I expect that it works all the way down to bacteria

Your photos are insanely detailed! I love them And I am usually not very fond of creepy crawlies. In your photos they look like tiny dinosaurs.

Thanks Arya

 

[brancho]

A small spider that I found under the same log as the other day I tried to shoot this one at the time but it scampered off.
Then there are a bunch sprintails and a mite. Shot trying out my Oly E-M5 MkII and zuiiko 60mm with 48mm of tubes and a Raynox DCR250 and trying manual flash which I need to work on.


Small spider and springtail by Alf Branch, on Flickr


When it stopped running


Small spider by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Springtails


Orchesella cincta juvenile by Alf Branch, on Flickr


This was badly overexposed


Calvatomina near superba by Alf Branch, on Flickr


This mite was not happy to see me


A mite escaping me by Alf Branch, on Flickr


What do you think?

 

[robm]