Closer Look At Threatening Sawfly Larvae Behaviour
e6filmuser
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These were shot through my Printing Nikkor 105. The final frames are of a parasitic (Braconid?) wasp which very briefly (too fast to see) seemed to make contact with the larvae then alighted on the foliage.
Frustratingly, it first landed on the twig I was pulling on to keep the wind-blow leaves still. Retreating backwards, my lens only captured a view of the back of its head. However, it found two further places to rest where I obtained some usable images, one of them showing only the unusual length of the antenna, hoping it will help to identify this wasp. NB The wasp images first uploaded have background noise. This has been mostly removed and new versions uploaded in a reply.
The fourth image shows the return to feeding.
The minimum aperture of f11 of the lens limited the DOF and the FOV of 17mm made it difficult to frame the wasp in side view.
Harold
Frustratingly, it first landed on the twig I was pulling on to keep the wind-blow leaves still. Retreating backwards, my lens only captured a view of the back of its head. However, it found two further places to rest where I obtained some usable images, one of them showing only the unusual length of the antenna, hoping it will help to identify this wasp. NB The wasp images first uploaded have background noise. This has been mostly removed and new versions uploaded in a reply.
The fourth image shows the return to feeding.
The minimum aperture of f11 of the lens limited the DOF and the FOV of 17mm made it difficult to frame the wasp in side view.
Harold
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Brian v.
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Thanks, Brian.
It looks like a missed a stage of NR for the wasp images so I have cleaned up a bit.
Harold