show us your flies, bugs, and disgusting insects!

AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited July 29, 2005 in Wildlife
yeah i know we have a macro forum - but i want more folks to see how beautiful flies bugs and insects are :lol3

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now, won't you please share yours? everyone, c'mon in and join the fun :deal
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  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Saw this guy on the carpet recently. Wife wasn't very happy that I was rushing to get my camera instead of taking it outside :D


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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited July 27, 2005
    I like skippers too Andy.:): I've just not had that many butterflies in the garden yet this yearne_nau.gif
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    How about a lightning bug?

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Here's my favorite dragonfly shot

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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited July 27, 2005
    This one got away though - just for you, Harry!!

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  • WaterfallRichWaterfallRich Registered Users Posts: 223 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    crab spiders

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    excellent - keep 'em coming guys! where's the lord??? and skippy??? and jekyll deal.gif
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  • ZygoteZygote Registered Users Posts: 128 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Wow, you guys are so good at this!

    Not sure, but i could swear that this one is missing the lid on his back :)

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    Here is a fly

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  • 4labs4labs Registered Users Posts: 2,089 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Who you lookin at?
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  • HiggmeisterHiggmeister Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Hi Stve,
    I've had several of these in the house lately. This one was so cooperative that it lived to see another day (Don't like spiders, but put this one in the front yard).
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  • HiggmeisterHiggmeister Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Hi Rich,
    I got a little crabby one day, so I thought I'd share this one with you. I took this one when I was in Tennessee as we don't have these in Nevada.
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  • JamesJWegJamesJWeg Registered Users Posts: 795 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    I always liked this one, I know it is way soft, but I took it on Kodacrome 64 in July of 1992, so this is a scan of a slide, and not a very good one at that. Now I am looking for a chance to reshoot this some day, but I really need a better macro setup. I was used to my bellows on the film cam, but I don't have one for the digital.

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    Here you can see why I need better macro for the digital.
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    another old scan of a film print from 1992.
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  • JamesJWegJamesJWeg Registered Users Posts: 795 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    One more from Kodachrome 64 days. Why are all my slide scans so soft?
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  • HiggmeisterHiggmeister Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Hi Andy, thought I'd play too.
    Don't know if you are aware, but we have a fly thread going on in the "Other Shots" forum. I thought I'd play here too and show some other bugs.

    We are in a plague here and have these guys/gals overrunning some areas.
    Morman Cricket
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    How about a little grub that just wants to be loved:
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    And a little jumper that I captured yesterday on my kitchen counter. Look closely through the front feelers and you can see the light reflecting off the fangs.
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    Macro...Gooood:D,
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  • hichuzhichuz Registered Users Posts: 99 Big grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    here's a couple of Oregonians...

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  • behr655behr655 Registered Users Posts: 552 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Andy,

    I think maybe you are being a little evil starting this thread.
    I like that.:D

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  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    We also had a short invasion of Striped Sphinx Morning Moths in Northern Nevada. I was never able to get a really good shot, but got lucky to catch one that had landed on some floweres on our back deck.

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  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
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  • tmlphototmlphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,444 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Another fly
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  • HiggmeisterHiggmeister Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    What a gorgeous shot Steve. I didn't see any of these this year:cry, guess they knew the wife doesn't like moths. I would have loved to have got a few of these. Oh well, there's always next year.

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    behr655 wrote:
    Andy,

    I think maybe you are being a little evil starting this thread.
    I like that.:D

    Bear

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Ok Here's some :D

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  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Higgmeister wrote:
    What a gorgeous shot Steve. I didn't see any of these this year:cry, guess they knew the wife doesn't like moths. I would have loved to have got a few of these. Oh well, there's always next year.

    Chris
    Thanks for the compliment. They were only around for a few weeks in early summer. Looked like "Hummingbirds". I was never able to get a really nice in flight shot, maybe by next year my skills will improve enough to get a nice head or in flight shot.

    BTW, All of your "Bug" shots were very nice. clap.gif

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Here's some more
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  • Crvtte65Crvtte65 Registered Users Posts: 24 Big grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Seeing all these macro's is making me want to get a new lens to better the capabilities that my tele-zoom has. :D The spiders are really creapy!
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,708 moderator
    edited July 27, 2005
    Rohirrim wrote:
    We also had a short invasion of Striped Sphinx Morning Moths in Northern Nevada. I was never able to get a really good shot, but got lucky to catch one that had landed on some floweres on our back deck.

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    Regards,

    Moths can be really hard to capture, their wings moving like a bumble bees or a hummingbirds and they don't sit still either
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  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Beautiful shot! thumb.gif

    Show Off ! :D
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  • jthomasjthomas Registered Users Posts: 454 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Chattanooga acquarium butterfly room...
    Moth or butterfly?

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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    On the sunflower this morning.
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  • AllenAllen Registered Users Posts: 10,013 Major grins
    edited July 27, 2005
    Lunch time
    Must have a big stomach.
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  • benbobenbo Registered Users Posts: 206 Major grins
    edited July 28, 2005
    My contribution....
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    That one was took in dowtown Honolulu in Novembere 2004...

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