Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

[Phill D]

Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread

Yes Peter it was the 40-150 plus tc. As you say great for butterflies but the 12-100 is pretty dam good too if you can get close enough.

[wornish]

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I think I might have said this elsewhere on here but my 40-150 is noticeably sharper than my 12-100. Maybe I have a slightly out of tolerance copy, don't know. It's still, however, my go-to lens so it's not all bad.

[alfbranch]

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Here are some orange tips from yesterday I took 2 camera set ups to see how I got on with the 40-150 and TC



Taken with the E-M511 and 40-150 at TC



Orange tip male feeding by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Orange tip female by Alf Branch, on Flickr


More my usual thing with the E-M1 and Sigma 105 E-X25 and STF-8 flash





Orange tip female 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr

[Phill D]

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It's nice to get shots from a distance as i did using the pro lens but true macro lenses do make a difference, nice one Alf.

[MJ224]

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Itzy Bitzy Spider

Despite having a spider ID book, unsure it's ID...

Possibly Pardosa Agricola

by Mark Johnson, on Flickr

[MJ224]

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Busy Bee

by Mark Johnson, on Flickr

[art frames]

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More my usual thing with the E-M1 and Sigma 105 E-X25 and STF-8 flash

Alf, lovely colours and well worth the extra time it will have taken. Phill is right a good macro in skilled hands is well worth it. Good year for OTs so far.
peter

[Harold Gough]

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Itzy Bitzy Spider[/url]

Despite having a spider ID book, unsure it's ID...

Possibly Pardosa Agricola

Did it have a bucket and spade with it? If not, I think it's P. prativaga.

Harold

[Harold Gough]

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Good year for OTs so far.

Yes. a few days ago, I saw three* males flying around each other then two females together. The females were chased by a Brimstone, and then the other way round. At some stage a comma got involved. All of this in the space of about one minute.

* Definitely a record for the garden.

Holly Blues and Speckled Woods are about, as are the nymphalids (no Painted Lady yet).

Harold

[MJ224]

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Did it have a bucket and spade with it? If not, I think it's P. prativaga.

Harold

[Harold Gough]

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Yes, the only name I have ever heard for them.

The genus used to be (1960s) Lycosa from the Greek lycos for wolf.

Harold

[alfbranch]

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Anyone know what is happening here



I shot this the other day I did not know what it was at the time. I know it is a caterpillar of some sort or a sawfly larvae but is pupating or has been parasitised.



Unknown by Alf Branch, on Flickr

[alfbranch]

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First honey bee I have seen for a while



Honey bee feeding by Alf Branch, on Flickr


A couple of hover flies


Hover fly on Dandylion 2 by Alf Branch, on Flickr


Hover fly on Dandylion by Alf Branch, on Flickr


A wolf spider on gorse probably Pardosa amenata


Wolf spider on gorse by Alf Branch, on Flickr

[Harold Gough]

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Anyone know what is happening here

I shot this the other day I did not know what it was at the time. I know it is a caterpillar of some sort or a sawfly larvae but is pupating or has been parasitised.

I can see a leg, so it is not dipteran. Those tubes look like tracheae.

Harold

[MJ224]

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Small White on daisys

by Mark Johnson, on Flickr