Wolf Mother, VERY VERY Blue Fly and a Two Tone Woodlouse

IPClark

Another Wolf mother on our storage box. Think she must have climbed up a nearby shrub. I deposited her carefully on the ground amongst the shrub when I finished.





I've never seen a bottle fly this blue before. This shot I've left out of camera with the exception of a touch of sharpening. Camera was on auto-WB but the colour was this vivid on the fly itself.



...and a two tone woodlouse. I've never seen one with distintively one half of its body darker than the other half

Lord Vetinari

Lovely captures Ian.
With the "blue" bluebottle fly- suspect it's another one of a number of similar blue flies (ie it's not the normal bluebottle).
Pretty sure the woodlouse is halfway through a moult - they apparently shed one half at a time.
Brian v.

IPClark

Cheers Brian .

Cheers for the info.

GOLDENORFE

Good series, always wondered if light angle affects the blue on bluebottles?

IPClark

Cheers Phil