Finally A Couple Of Caterpillars

Skippy

Whooohooooo!!!! I found a bug ... I found a bug :clap :ivar
Got home from work this afternoon, did two lots of hand washing to save water rather than use the washing machine.

I go outside to hang the washing out, and low and behold I see this little buggar eating my plant :rofl
Ohhhhhh joy! rapture! I says to meself :lust
So I ran back inside, put a 20mm Kenko Tube together with my Canon 100mm, and an external flash with a Diffuser on it.

These shots are hand held, holding the 580X flush up against the barrel of the lens with an extention cord attached,
so the flash head is against the tip of the Lens on the camera in one hand,
and the other hand also holding the camera and firing button.

I also had a rubber flexible Lens hood attached to Lens.

Enjoy........ Skippy

I like these little guys, they may be pests but heck I let them live



They eat that plant prickles and all, that sharp part doesn't seem
to phase them one little bit, it all goes down the hatch!



Now this little fellow was on a different plant, and it must be related to
the other caterpillars on the other plant, except that it was almost albino looking.
He was the same size as the other one, but not the same colour.

gus

Nicely exposed skip

Skippy

gus wrote:

Nicely exposed skip

Thanks Gus..... there is just nothing around mate, not a sausage.
....... Skippy
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Phyxius

Nice Skippy! These are little bugs I'm actually okay looking at! The second shot is my favorite...because the albino looking fellow is a bit creepy!

Lord Vetinari

Wonderful captures Skippy . I bet a few years ago you would have run in the house for the insectacide rather than the camera
Brian V.

BigAl

Nice set Skippy! First time I've seen caterpillars with such pronounced eyes. How big are/were they?

JillG

Nice shots:D, great colors . Never thought of holding the flash like that, Great idea.

Jill

Seefutlung

Nice Skippy. Typically caterpillars may leave holes in your plants, but they will not do such severe damage that it will kill the host.

Gary

Dalantech

Excellent shots Skippy!!!

Cool to see you finally get some critters!

Maestro

Very nice shots Skippy!

Awais Yaqub

Great photos skippy loved them, Nice color selection of font too

ShepsMom

Nice set , but let's agree, they are alien looking creatures

Serrator

Wonderful captures Skippy!!

If you don't mind please send some of your bugs my way ...purely for macro testing purposes only!

Skippy

Phyxius wrote:

Nice Skippy! These are little bugs I'm actually okay looking at! The second shot is my favorite...because the albino looking fellow is a bit creepy!

Ahhhhhh they look much better close up ya know
It's the faces I love the most.....

I'll teach you to like bugs on the trip okay .... Skippy
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Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Wonderful captures Skippy . I bet a few years ago you would have run in the house for the insectacide rather than the camera
Brian V.

No actually I've always liked bugs, I don't like them on me,
but I do like bugs, the insect world is just amazing,
I'll be looking for bugs in USA too

Thanks for looking Brian..... Skippy
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Skippy

BigAl wrote:

Nice set Skippy! First time I've seen caterpillars with such pronounced eyes. How big are/were they?

Well BigAl in fact you cant see the eyes unless you do a Macro.
The head on these Caterpillars is smaller and flatter than
a Match Head, so it's very, very, very small indeed.

This is why it is handy to have the Kenko Tubes.
Even though I was using a Macro Lens, the Kenkos will get even closer.

They just look big in my shots thanks for looking ..... Skippy
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Skippy

JillG wrote:

Nice shots:D, great colors . Never thought of holding the flash like that, Great idea.

Jill

It's very bulky Jill, and hard to hold, maybe easier for a guy with big hands,
but I struggle to hold it off the camera.

I can't get the flash were I want it without taking it off the camera.
I found if you take the flash off and have it so the flash is not bent
like an L so have it straight like this -- > I
It's a little easier to hold it straight along the barrel of the lens.

I did not have the big lens hood that comes with the 100mm Macro,
instead I have a flexible rubber hood that I use on my 50mm.

Give it a try, it's awkward, but it works
Thanks for looking ...... Skippy
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Skippy

Seefutlung wrote:

Nice Skippy. Typically caterpillars may leave holes in your plants, but they will not do such severe damage that it will kill the host.

Gary

Hi there Gary, the plant is not infested with them,
its only got 3 that I saw, and the white Albino one was the only one
on the other plant.

That plant is quite sharp with those points, but the caterpillars eat them
so I don't mind .... THanks for looking .... Skippy
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Skippy

Dalantech wrote:

Excellent shots Skippy!!!

Cool to see you finally get some critters!

Yup Yup finally but this leads to another problem...
Where am I gonna find something different

I never even saw any grasshoppers this year,
I'm sure there was some around somewhere,
but I didn't even see any out at the airfield.

Hope I can find something else soon, thanks for commenting.... Skippy
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Skippy

Maestro wrote:

Very nice shots Skippy!

Thank you Maestro ..... Skippy
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Skippy

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Great photos skippy loved them, Nice color selection of font too

Thank you Awais, wish I could find more bugs,
but being in drought mode doesn't help..... Skippy
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Skippy

ShepsMom wrote:

Nice set , but let's agree, they are alien looking creatures

Hi ShepsMom, on the orginal of the Albino looking one,
if you go in real close it looks like a wrinkled old thing it does,
more so than it appears in the picture.

I haven't seen one of those White ones before, just the orange ones.

Thanks for looking........ Skippy
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Skippy

Serrator wrote:

Wonderful captures Skippy!!

If you don't mind please send some of your bugs my way ...purely for macro testing purposes only!

Not allowed to send bugs overseas
We just don't have a lot of colourful things down my way.

Up in the hotter more tropical parts of Australia,
they have very very colour and much larger bugs.

Thanks for looking .... Skippy
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RogersDA

Skippy wrote:

Up in the hotter more tropical parts of Australia,
they have very very colour and much larger bugs.

Sounds like it's time for a field trip!!

Those are great captures, Skippy.

Skippy

RogersDA wrote:

Sounds like it's time for a field trip!!

Those are great captures, Skippy.

Thanks It's cheaper to go to USA for a week ..... Skippy
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tlee

I really like your images! I too like bugs--just not on me:D. I like the albino one--mostly because he's the ugliest!! Bugs are just now starting to stir here. Can't wait to start photographing some buggers myself. It's really nice to find a group of people who like to photograph and/or view photos of bugs. Most of my friends and family just don't get it!

Skippy

tlee wrote:

I really like your images! I too like bugs--just not on me:D. I like the albino one--mostly because he's the ugliest!! Bugs are just now starting to stir here. Can't wait to start photographing some buggers myself. It's really nice to find a group of people who like to photograph and/or view photos of bugs. Most of my friends and family just don't get it!

Funny you should say most of your friends and family don't like bugs,
....mine are the same

I'm just so intrigued at what you can see in a Macro,
that you cannot see with your naked eye when your looking at bugs.

All those tiny hairs, the structure of their eyes, their odd mouths,
the amount of eyes some of them have.....

Lots of things are interesting on a bug yup this is a nice forum for sharing bugs .... thanks for commenting tlee .... Skippy
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