Some recent bug macros

Lord Vetinari

Macro bug season is coming to an end here in the UK, so I thought I get some whilst the going was good. I thought this was an interesting mix of "styles".

Wasn't me!




mmm hoverfly



Spider and the fly (well most of a fly)




Hoverfly visiting Impatiens flower



Hate to think what this spider has caught but it's big!



Fortune telling spider ( I think it's a resin bead from my pond filter)



Mating midges (about 4mm long each) on a New Zealand flax plant leaf



Solitary digger wasp on potentilla bush



Hire wire act- small midge again resting on a strand of a spider's web

gluwater

Nice shots as usual Brian. Good mix of subjects

tmlphoto

Nice work LV. The last is my favorite.

Khaos

I love viewing your shots. It's so cool to see a different world close up.

Lord Vetinari

gluwater wrote:

Nice shots as usual Brian. Good mix of subjects

Thanks Nick

tmlphoto wrote:

Nice work LV. The last is my favorite.

Thanks Thomas- I only recently found out that small insects use spiders webs to hang about on (on purpose) apparently they are too small for the spider to bother with.

Khaos wrote:

I love viewing your shots. It's so cool to see a different world close up.[/QUOTE

Thanks Khaos- I still enjoy taking them- wonder what I'm going to do in the Winter?

gluwater

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks Khaos- I still enjoy taking them- wonder what I'm going to do in the Winter?

Macro snowflake in flight?

BigAl

Nice series Brian. You're going to have to come down south for your winter The bugs are just starting to come out now...

Lord Vetinari

BigAl wrote:

Nice series Brian. You're going to have to come down south for your winter The bugs are just starting to come out now...

Thanks Alan,
Nice idea- going South for the winter.
Have you got your replacement lens yet?
Brian V.

BigAl

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Thanks Alan,
Nice idea- going South for the winter.
Have you got your replacement lens yet?
Brian V.

Follow the swallows!

I got the lens back last Saturday. They repaired it, rather than replacing it and I've taken well over 250 pics since then (just to check that it works of course ). It *really* is an amazing lens - thanks for making me consider it. Am adding what I regard as the better pics to smugmug on a daily basis.

alan