Hazel Leaf-Roller Weevil Apoderus coryli

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
edited August 10, 2015 in Holy Macro
I had stopped feeding our garden birds, as their feeding activities had declined, it being August. Anyway, some of the local Feathered Mafia hassled me and I started putting food out again. It was 6.30 am and I noticed a coloured blob on a leaf of the Hazel bush adjacent to the bird table.

A quick look revealed an insect something like the Giraffe Weevil. I fetched my camera and shot a series of images via my Printing Nikkor 105mm at f11, FOV 17mm wide..

This weevil stayed perfectly still, apart form raising or lowering its head, for at last half an hour, a macro dream! Well, not quite a dream subject, the black, shiny beetles always being difficult to show at their best.

Harold

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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2015
    Cool critter!
  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2015
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Cool critter!

    Yes. A bit of a poser too!

    Harold
  • ThelensspotThelensspot Registered Users Posts: 2,041 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2015
    Love the colors and focus!
    Seems to be trying to get better reception. :D
    "Photography is partly art and partly science. Really good photography adds discipline, sacrifice and a never ending pursuit of photographic excellence"...ziggy53

  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2015
    Thelensspot wrote: »
    Love the colors and focus!
    Seems to be trying to get better reception. :D

    Thanks.

    I am always a bit nervous about getting true colours. My recall of the original sighting was that the elytra were rather more red but I checked back to the RAW image, and to published images, and the colour is correct.

    Harold
  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2015
    I have just increased the brightness of the third image and uploaded the modified version.

    Harold

  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited August 9, 2015
    Thelensspot wrote: »
    Love the colors and focus!
    Seems to be trying to get better reception. :D

    You said....I know I thought it was trying to do something.....now I know!
  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2015
    Thelensspot wrote: »
    Seems to be trying to get better reception. :D

    Perhaps it has a bug in its receiver? :D

    Harold
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