Another bug mix (56K warning)

Lord Vetinari · July 23, 2006

Some recent macro shots of various bugs.
Brian V.

Thought this fly shot looked a bit like one of those "Stubbs" type horse portraits

My best yet attempt at a damselfly in flight

Only noticed after this Marmalade hoverfly has a slash wound across the top of it's abdomen

Crop from shot of same hoverfly

Fly on a magic roundabout

Some rubbish attacking one of my flowers- ID'd as a lacewing larva

Crop from above- has interesting simple eye unlike the adult

Uncropped shot of one of my favourite large hovers- Volucella zonaria

Dalantech · July 23, 2006

Excellent shots Brian!

Ted Szukalski · July 23, 2006

Wow, the 1st and the 4th photographs are unbelievably good.

Skippy · July 23, 2006

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Some recent macro shots of various bugs.
Brian V.

Hey there Brian...... another excellent series from you

I love the head on the last fly you posted, that is quite different to the others.... is he a larger variety to the other hoverflies you posted ???

Skippy (Australia)

Lord Vetinari · July 23, 2006

Dalantech wrote:

Excellent shots Brian!

Thanks Dalantech

Brian V.

Lord Vetinari · July 23, 2006

Ted Szukalski wrote:

Wow, the 1st and the 4th photographs are unbelievably good.

Thanks Ted- much appreciated
Brian V.

Lord Vetinari · July 23, 2006

Skippy wrote:

Hey there Brian...... another excellent series from you
I love the head on the last fly you posted, that is quite different to the others.... is he a larger variety to the other hoverflies you posted ???

Skippy (Australia)

Thanks Skippy
Yes the last shot is a large hover- it's only shot at 1:1 or to give you better idea it's about the size of a large bumblebee. I'd guess the body length was about 2cms. I gather hovers are much rarer out there than in the UK and the species although looking similar to some of ours are actually different species.
Brian V.