Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

[Harold Gough]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

If you want confusion then put several blues together.

I've been there!

Harold

[Walti]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

A Harlequin. The spots take a while to colour up.

Harold

That was my wild guess, as there is the hint of some spots on a couple of the photos I took.

[Harold Gough]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

That was my wild guess, as there is the hint of some spots on a couple of the photos I took.

No need: the the fearsome spines on the larval skin remnants is enough evidence.

Harold

[Harold Gough]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

Hoverfly Chrysotoxum bicinctum

These appear for a short time in early summer. They settle on vegetation but usually very briefly, making photographing them challenging. These are the best I could obtain in two long sessions.

Olympus EM-1 (aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 x2 TC, Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, f9 or f10, hand-held.

The stereos are crosseye.

Harold

[Harold Gough]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

Dance Fly or Dagger Fly Feeding

There is divided opinion as to whether these should be called Dance Flies or Dagger Flies. They are in the family Empididae, and this may be a species of Empis.

I was photographing hoverflies on Goldenrod leaves when I saw this a few leaves down in the foliage. These flies are predators and this one has caught a moth.

Getting a good angle was tricky, as I thought I might easily put it to flight but it turned out to be quite tolerant of my bending back of stems and leaves, out of the frame.

Olympus EM-1(aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 x2 TC, Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, 1/40 to 1/60 at f10, overcast sky, hand-held.

The stereos are crosseye, the second one of cropped images.

Harold

[MJ224]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread



Grass Hopper of some sort???

[Harold Gough]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

Grass Hopper of some sort???

A male Bush Cricket. Almost certainly the Dark B. C.

Harold

[MJ224]

[mik]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

Dontknow what it is.


P6230061 by electric.mike, on Flickr

[Harold Gough]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

Dontknow what it is.

A Hylaeus bee, or something related (Colletidae)

Harold

[alfbranch]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

A Hylaeus bee, or something related (Colletidae)

Harold

I would agree

Possibly this and if so female

http://www.bwars.com/bee/colletidae/hylaeus-hyalinatus

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[Harold Gough]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

Large Skipper on Valerium Flowers

When I walked close by this feeding butterfly this afternoon I was surprised that it kept feeding. So I fetched my camera and got quite a few shots. All were at 1:1 (FOV 17.5mm) but they have been variously cropped.

Olympus EM-1, Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, f8, sunlight, hand-held.

Harold

[Walti]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

A BIG wasp.... 10cm or so from tip to tip!

[Harold Gough]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

A BIG wasp.... 10cm or so from tip to tip!

An ichneumonid

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/take-part/identify-nature/british-ichneumonid-wasps-id-guide.pdf

See pages 5.

Harold

[Walti]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

An ichneumonid

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/content/dam/nhmwww/take-part/identify-nature/british-ichneumonid-wasps-id-guide.pdf

See pages 5.

Harold

Page 33 suggests it's a Rhyssa persuasoria - sabre wasp "the easiest to identify" I'm obviously not very good at this! though I was confused as there's not a nine inch nail sticking through the one I photographed!