little kids playing

basflt

saw this white speckles on this flower knob
real busy down there



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Lord Vetinari

Good ones- a colony of aphids - the white ones are empty shed skins.
Brian V.

basflt

what you mean with empty skins ?
do they pop out ? sort of like snakes do ?

Lord Vetinari

basflt wrote: »

what you mean with empty skins ?
do they pop out ? sort of like snakes do ?

Yup many insects go through a series of nymph stages and have to shed their skin to go onto the next size. It's the problem of having a fairly rigid exoskeleton - you have to change it to get bigger.
Brian v.

basflt

ok , thanks Lord
this is about as close as i can get with plain lens only

basflt

the higher the magnification , the more quality drops
i know that
but ,,,,,
the urge to get closer is there too
closer closer closer

105 mm lens + 1.7 TC + full stack of tubes