Orange ladybird

rhermans

rhermans Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins

July 20, 2010 edited July 23, 2010 in Holy Macro

For obvious reasons the ladybird below is called the Orange Ladybird.

Usually there are 16 creamy white spots. Its rather rare to find (its said to be common, but this is the first I ever saw)
Different from other ladybird this one eats fungus.

My wife found this one on the gardentable, so I moved it to a blue Hortensia and took some shots.

most of the shots are taken at 2:1 macro.(kiron105mm+raynox dcr250 + off camera flash (3) )

#1 full turtle mode

#2 taking a peep under the shield.

#3 that big black thing with the hard light isn’t so bad, may time for a walk

#4 hmmm, not scary at all

#5 ready for take off

#6 bye

larger images are here : http://rhermans.smugmug.com/keyword/meeldauwlieveheersbeestje

best regards

Ronny

http://rhermans.smugmug.com

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cbbr Registered Users Posts: 755 Major grins

July 20, 2010 edited July 20, 2010

Great shots. The colors are very nice.

Chad - www.brberrys.com
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IPClark Registered Users Posts: 2,355 Major grins

July 20, 2010 edited July 20, 2010

A fantastic series of shots. Gotta love the opened up wings shot and the take off. Great shots.

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Lord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins

July 21, 2010 edited July 21, 2010

Lovely series of shots. Very good getting the take off shots !
Brian v.

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Chrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins

July 21, 2010 edited July 21, 2010

very cool! and love how the colours match so nicely!!

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BeardedChick Registered Users Posts: 145 Major grins

July 21, 2010 edited July 21, 2010

Nice series, Ronny! Great catch on the take off shot.

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DeVil Registered Users Posts: 1,037 Major grins

July 21, 2010 edited July 21, 2010

Wonderfull!

Predrag Petkovic

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jpc Registered Users Posts: 840 Major grins

July 21, 2010 edited July 21, 2010

Great job getting the takeoff. I've never seen that before. Well done!

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rhermans Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins

July 22, 2010 edited July 22, 2010

cbbr wrote: »

Great shots. The colors are very nice.

Thanks Chad

best regards

Ronny
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rhermans Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins

July 22, 2010 edited July 22, 2010

IPClark wrote: »

A fantastic series of shots. Gotta love the opened up wings shot and the take off. Great shots.

Thanks Clark

best regards

Ronny
http://rhermans.smugmug.com

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rhermans Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins

July 22, 2010 edited July 22, 2010

Lord Vetinari wrote: »

Lovely series of shots. Very good getting the take off shots !
Brian v.

Thanks Brian

best regards

Ronny
http://rhermans.smugmug.com

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rhermans Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins

July 22, 2010 edited July 22, 2010

Chrissiebeez_NL wrote: »

very cool! and love how the colours match so nicely!!

Thanks Chris

best regards

Ronny
http://rhermans.smugmug.com

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rhermans Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins

July 22, 2010 edited July 22, 2010

BeardedChick wrote: »

Nice series, Ronny! Great catch on the take off shot.

Thanks

best regards

Ronny
http://rhermans.smugmug.com

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rhermans Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins

July 22, 2010 edited July 22, 2010

DeVil wrote: »

Wonderfull!

Thanks DeVil

best regards

Ronny
http://rhermans.smugmug.com

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rhermans Registered Users Posts: 130 Major grins

July 22, 2010 edited July 22, 2010

jpc wrote: »

Great job getting the takeoff. I've never seen that before. Well done!

Thanks JPC

best regards

Ronny
http://rhermans.smugmug.com

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awoo Registered Users Posts: 37 Big grins

July 22, 2010 edited July 22, 2010

#6 is perfect! Love it!

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PeterD-2009 Registered Users Posts: 618 Major grins

July 23, 2010 edited July 23, 2010

Very good shots of a beautiful ladybird (the flight shots make a great series exceptional).

I too have only ever captured one of these by camera but before I got my Macro lens. The striking thing about this ladybird type is the translucient wing casing which your images show extremely well.

Thanks for sharing.

Cheers

Peter

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