Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

[bigsambwfc]

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[IMG]Dragonfly spade oak 7/7/18 by Walter Warburton, on Flickr[/IMG]
dragonfly, spade oak, mk2-p/l 100-400lens

[bigsambwfc]

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[IMG]Dragonfly spade oak 7/7/18 by Walter Warburton, on Flickr[/IMG]DRAGONFLY SPADE OAK MK2 P/L 100-400LENS

[Phill D]

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Butterfly and bee.

[Phill D]

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And one where the bee's buzzed off.

[Phill D]

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Switched to the 40-150 +1.4tc for the last couple.
Here's a few more.







Plan to give the extension tubes a go with this lens if the sun comes out later.

[mik]

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P7130046 by electric.mike, on Flickr


P7130081 by electric.mike, on Flickr

[Janet]

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Just a common or garden fly, but such fun to be out again playing with a new lens!

Janet

[Harold Gough]

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Just a common or garden fly, but such fun to be out again playing with a new lens!

Janet

Actually, an Eristalis hoverfly. Nice image.

Harold

[Janet]

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Thanks Harold - I do have a book on insect identification somewhere but they all look the same....!

I'm really liking this new lens, but I'm not so sure that it's quite as sharp as my kit lens. I've spent the afternoon chasing flutterbyes round the garden and having a whole load of fun!

Janet

[Harold Gough]

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Thanks Harold - I do have a book on insect identification somewhere but they all look the same....!

That hourglass shape gives you Eristalis. It's a bit difficult to make out on the commonest species.

Harold

[Keith-369]

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Red Cotton Stainer - Dysdercus cingulatus



E-M1 ii + 12-100 f4 Pro

[alfbranch]

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Found this munching a flower


Flower muncher by Alf Branch, on Flickr


An azure damsel munching a cicadella-viridis nymph



Azure damsel fly eating by Alf Branch, on Flickr


An emerald damsel


Emerald damsel fly by Alf Branch, on Flickr

[mik]

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P7190139 by electric.mike, on Flickr

[Harold Gough]

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Rhinoceros Beetle

This is supposed to be a common British beetle but I have never knowingly seen one before. On a recent sunny day it landed on my wife's shirt and then wandered onto her arm. (Images shown in reverse sequence and all have been cropped).

aka Horned stag beetle or Least stag beetle, the “horn” makes it a male.

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

Harold

[Phill D]

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I did the big butterfly count today as prompted by Sir David Attenborough on BBC breakfast this morning. Here are a few of the ones I got in the 15 minute count. Not exactly macro but close, all shot with the 40-150 plus 1.4tc.

Speckled wood.


Peacock.


Green-veined white


Green-veined white


Speckled wood.


Hopefully I got the ID correct.