A Very Yellow Tomocerus

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,376 Major grins
edited April 3, 2015 in Holy Macro
I was shooting centipedes when largest, and yellowest, Tomocerus I have seen in my garden jumped into the scene. From my Collembola-collecting days, I remember these as being distinctly yellow, with many grey scales. Steve Hopkin, in his key to the British species, describes them as greyish brown. This would certainly apply to most of the genus I see in my garden.

This individual was about 5mm long, excluding the antennae. I got some good shots when it was recovering after a jump. Its antennae have been damaged and are much shorter than they should be, although one has made some re-growth.

EM-1, 21mm extension, Schneider 40mm reversed at f16, twin TTL RC flash, one free-standing, hand-held. The FOV was 9mm wide.

I have cropped out some OOF foreground.

Harold


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