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Lily Beetle: The Missing Images: Egg-Laying
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I recently posted some images of mating Lilly Beetles. I also posted some of eggs which, there being no other obvious candidates, I assumed were of this beetle.
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1432040
Today I not only verified this but caught some females either having just laid such eggs or in the process of doing so
The images are posted with the beetles in the orientation they had in life, i.e. inverted, underneath the leaves. If you prefer them the other way up, you will have to undergo contortions of your body much like I had to make to get these images. Enjoy!
The first four images show the progress of laying the last egg of the batch. This took many minutes. You can see it inside the body of the beetle, in the ovipositor. I went round to the other side of the beetle for the fourth image.
The final image is one I shot earlier in the day, of a female just after she had finished laying her eggs. At the time, I thought that was the best I was going to get. I detached the leaf and the beetle started wandering away from the eggs so I prodded her gently to get her into the position shown.
EM-1 (Manual Mode), Kiron 105mm at f16, 1/250, ISO 400, twin off-camera TTL RC flash, hand-held.
Harold
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1432040
Today I not only verified this but caught some females either having just laid such eggs or in the process of doing so
The images are posted with the beetles in the orientation they had in life, i.e. inverted, underneath the leaves. If you prefer them the other way up, you will have to undergo contortions of your body much like I had to make to get these images. Enjoy!
The first four images show the progress of laying the last egg of the batch. This took many minutes. You can see it inside the body of the beetle, in the ovipositor. I went round to the other side of the beetle for the fourth image.
The final image is one I shot earlier in the day, of a female just after she had finished laying her eggs. At the time, I thought that was the best I was going to get. I detached the leaf and the beetle started wandering away from the eggs so I prodded her gently to get her into the position shown.
EM-1 (Manual Mode), Kiron 105mm at f16, 1/250, ISO 400, twin off-camera TTL RC flash, hand-held.
Harold
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Harold