I have no idea what this is . . .
Brooks P
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We have this rose that changes colors between the time the bud starts to open and the rose is fully opened. I thought this flower was particularily interesting and while I was photographing it, I noticed this little fellow. It looks like a miniture grasshopper. I don't think it was a quarter of an inch long (6.35mm). I have no idea what it is.
This is a crop of the above picture.
I took this with a D50, 50mm F/1.8 with a #4 close-up filter.
This is a crop of the above picture.
I took this with a D50, 50mm F/1.8 with a #4 close-up filter.
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Gorgeous coloured Rose there Brooks...... I was gonna be clever and tell you the name of the bug, cause Michael from The Netherlands made me buy a BUG Book in UTAH cause he insisted that I NEEDED IT ! ...... well it just so happens that bug is NOT IN IT ohhh well
The colours in your Rose are so lovely, and that little bug really looks great in the shot too Skippy (Australia)
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Thank you for looking. It's been awhile since we last conversed, Feb, 2, 2004 to be exact. You posted, "Okay I posted just one image to Photobuck to check if its going t show up here.......let me know if you guys see a Lioness or a blank box " It was a very nice picture of a lioness.
Wow that long ago??? gawwwd, well Mr Brooks let me tell you I have really moved on since then what I lack now is the time to sit and edit.
Nice to see you back on the forum .......take Care....... Skippy (Australia)
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Absolutely love the rose, but the bug had me more intrigued, so off I went searching. Looks to me very much like an immature katydid (nymph). Found one on What's That Bug and while not identical, it has the same characteristics.
http://whatsthatbug.com/katy.html
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A bud
A partially opend flower
The next day, not the same visitor, this is one of the older pictures taken with the Sony. The pink is moving towards orange
A fully opened flower and the pink is gone
And finally, a fading queen of the garden and the pink is back
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I believe your rose could be a Double Delight, so named because of its glorious colour changes. I used to have a standard of this variety, but it died :cry, as where we are it's so dry in the summer that nothing but the hardiest of plants will grow.
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Thank you for the compliment on the picture, but I don't think It is a cricket, I think Helen got it right with her link to the Website that identifies the bug as a katydid. The picture on the website is a near duplicate of my bug.
Helen,
The name Double Delight does sound familiar, and you mat be right.
BTW,
Technically these are not Macros, but close-ups. I won't bore everyone with the technical definition of a Macro. Those who take real Macros probably know the difference.
The first picture was taken the first day that I had my 70-300mm G lens. I was trying to see how close I could get and still get a focus lock. It's closer than the specifications say it is.
The last picture was taken the first day I had my D50 and it is the 6th picture taken with the camera. It convinced me that at least some of the people who had told me that the 18-55mm "kit" lens was a piece of junk, didn't necessarily know what the heck they were talking about.
that bug has a similar body to an aphid, i think.
not good on id's of any nature, bugs, flowers, animals, hey, i even forget my own id number at the best of times
cheers brooks.
EEK! forgot to say, stunning shots those!
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