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Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread
Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread
Generally these shots would be consigned to the bin but as a sequence they show something.
Some shots from a recent macro safari.
Some of these are not very good but they show a sequence of events I shot without really seeing what was happening. This is on the surface of some water in a hanging basket in my garden {no soil) on a windwy day so getting a shot at all was not easy as these lot would move a couple of cm in a gust.
Re: Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread
Damaid Mite Through Photar 25mm at f16
This is the last of the series from a session looking at arthropods on the underside of pieces of decaying wood on soil or wood chips in March.
These mites are, by far, the largest I have come across, and I have seen dozens of species. They are of about the same size and, to the naked eye, appearance as the smaller liniphiid spiders. They lumber around at a very slow pace, making them easy to frame, but their legs extend a long way sideways and forwards, making fitting them into the DOF almost impossible.
These mites are always dirty and scruffy looking, the border between mite and crud tending to be unclear. I have never seen immature individuals.
The family is Damaeidae and I think this is Metabelba. I have seen them described as moss eaters. I can confirm that this species, in my garden has no moss where it is found. Today I found a research paper confirming them to be fungus eaters,
The FOV in these (uncropped) images is ca 3.7mm. In the second one the brown object is another mite of another family. Both species are in the Oribatida.
Olympus EM-1 (manual mode), Leitz Wetzlar Photar 25mm f2.5 macro at f16, twin TTL flash, hand-held with support.
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emperor swallowtail and plumbago by philip Gate Keeper, on Flickr
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