definitely having to work for this october
piggsy
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After a really neat start to spring I'm finding october to be a total bust for bugs. Very dry, very warm nights meaning even night shoots don't guarantee passive subjects, very few bugs at all, have to work for everything and get it within a couple of shots before it buggers off - to a point where a lot of nights I'm coming out of a huge vacant field or my big garden having found a couple of orb spiders and a blowfly or two. Rainfall for the city this month -
Ouch.
Spiders having decent luck finding bugs at least -
Did have one good find - a mass swarm of orange tailed leafcutter bees (? having trouble finding an exact match to them), hundreds and hundreds of them on grass stems out in a park one afternoon. Thought I'd hit the motherlode of bee photos but it turns out that several hundred bees in a big boiling grumpy mass is.... not actually very easy to shoot and get nice composed in focus photos out of it
Still have tones of photos of that to go through, but here's the smallest most coherent mass I could find -
was surrounded by another 6 of those masses with about 2-3 times as many bees in them.
Ouch.
Spiders having decent luck finding bugs at least -
Did have one good find - a mass swarm of orange tailed leafcutter bees (? having trouble finding an exact match to them), hundreds and hundreds of them on grass stems out in a park one afternoon. Thought I'd hit the motherlode of bee photos but it turns out that several hundred bees in a big boiling grumpy mass is.... not actually very easy to shoot and get nice composed in focus photos out of it
Still have tones of photos of that to go through, but here's the smallest most coherent mass I could find -
was surrounded by another 6 of those masses with about 2-3 times as many bees in them.
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The wasp spider with an unusual bug was a good find.
That rove beetle is the most colourful one I have seen.
Harold
I had no idea what a rove beetle was until I found that one and you mentioned it
If you mean the spider with the green hopper, I think that might be a lattice web spider (Linyphiidae) - webs they build are a good match for it anyway. Always find it very difficult to get a close up shot of one of those that isn't from underneath, they hang out facing the bush they're on and strike through the underside of the web.
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