Orange Woodlouse

e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
edited January 13, 2016 in Holy Macro
The rain having stopped for a change, I ventured into my garden. The potential for photography was not good, so I left my camera indoors. Then I saw this individual, unusually for a woodlouse, posing on top of a rotten twig on the ground.

I fetched my camera, Printing Nikkor 150mm and flash guns already attached and headed back to the twig. By this time, the woodlouse had disappeared under the twig. I replaced it in the original position and placed the twig at convenient height on a nearby pile of logs.

The woodlouse stayed in position for several minutes. Then it disappeared around the underside but stayed in place again for a few more minutes. Three or four such rearrangements enabled me to get a set of images. The FOV was 17mm.

EM-1 (manual setting) ISO 200, 1/250 f11, triple flash, hand-held.

All images have been cropped for composition.

Harold

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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited January 11, 2016
    Fabulous captures!
  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2016
    Lovely captures- not seen an orange one before !
    Brian v.
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  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2016
    Lord Vetinari wrote: »
    Lovely captures- not seen an orange one before !
    Brian v.

    Thanks, Brian.

    Judging by the way it was clearly visible from several paces away, there may be a good reason!

    Harold
  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2016
    Stumblebum wrote: »
    Fabulous captures!

    Thanks.

    Harold
  • Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2016
    Orange is the new brown :)

    Paul.


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  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2016
    Here is an image, from the same location, of a browner form of what I believe to be the same species. My records suggest that this was one of the earliest with a x 1.5 TC behind my reversed Schneider HM 40mm, probably at f16, flash. Strangely, this was the only one of the session which I had not processed, although it shows the best detail.

    Harold

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  • e6filmusere6filmuser Registered Users Posts: 3,379 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2016
    It fits the description of Philoscia muscorum.

    Harold
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