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Communal Dragonfly, Butterfly and Insect photo thread
Yes, that looks like a Brown Argus to me. Newland and Still’s ‘Britain’s Butterflies’ say this is actually a member of the Blues, despite being brown, and the best way of id’ing it is to note the foremost underwing spot being well out from the body. Seems to fit, and you’re within its usual range in S Yorkshire.
Several years ago we had a thriving population of Scorpion Flies in our garden but they are now rather rare. This one was on a leaf when gusting wind meant most of my shots were OOF. Fortunately, these are OK, largely thanks to high shutter speed.
Olympus EM-1 (aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 x2 TC, Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, 1/1000 sec at f11 ISO 4,000, hand-held.
Nemophora degeerella Yellow-Barred Longhorn Moth Male
These males have very long antennae. They seems to be active only in sunlight.
The antennae are waved around most of the time, making stereo pairs difficult to obtain. In the one here, the right antenna appears only in one frame. As there is no visual conflict, it works well. The stereo is crosseye.
Olympus EM-1 (aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 x2 TC, Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, 1/500 or 1/640 at f11 ISO 4,000, hand-held.
Harold
Last edited by Harold Gough; 6 June 2022, 07:26 PM.
I came upon this scene yesterday whilst walking the dog - I wondered if this was a parasitic larvae that had appeared from the Weevil.....?
Anyway, 20mins later, on the way back, the larvae seemed to have its own problem...
Both taken with OM-1 & 60mm f/2.8 lens. First one at ISO 200 with flash & diffuser, the second at ISO 5000 run through Topaz denoise.
Would anyone care to offer identification of the beasts involved?
I have seen this species quite often, running over foliage, in my garden. They move rapidly and turn frequently and then fly to another leaf to start again. This was the only chance to get images.
I can't remember if I ever identified it.
The female seems to have a larger head as well as a broader abdomen.
The stereo is crosseye.
Olympus EM-1, (aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro,1/1600 & 1/640 at f9 ISO 4,000, hand-held.
Harold
Last edited by Harold Gough; 7 June 2022, 08:15 PM.
I wanted to get some better images of the Long-horn moth but the weather forecast was grim. To my surprise, there was blue sky with hardly a cloud.
I wandered to the spot where I had found them, to see if the sunlight had reached it yet. There, close to, but not in, a shaft of sunlight was a group of about a dozen moths forming a small cloud with aerobatics performed inside it.
I fetched my camera and had just 10 minutes before they departed. This time, there was almost no waving of the antennae so I did get some better images. Here are some single frames, with stereos to follow later.
A 7 Year Old Mystery Solved: Crossocerus a Digger Wasp
These were shot in June 2015 and have been stored as “Wasp, Small” since then. This is a female.
Thanks to Brian Valentine suggesting that the subject of my recent topic was a digger wasp, I was able to identify the mating pair as Crossocerus sp.
I knew I had seen this square-headed species before, and suspected that I had photographed it. I didn’t realise that it was so long ago. When I located the images I was delighted to find that some of them showed the wasp at its hole in the soil, confirming its “Digger” credentials.
I don’t have exact technical details but it was the Olympus EM-1 and probably the Kiron 105mm. Full flash was used.
The shots of the wasp by its nest hole were shot on the second day and may have had a macro supplementary lens on the Kiron.
The images of the wasp on a leaf have been cropped by about 60%
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Butterfly1 by Matt Hirst, on Flickr
Fly 2 by Matt Hirst, on Flickr
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