A winter cranefly

Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
edited January 4, 2008 in Holy Macro
I managed to mis-identify this twice before getting help from Diptera.info.
A "winter cranefly" - not a true cranefly but a member of the Trichoceridae family. Body length about 7mm. 2nd shot taken at 5:1- both shots are focus stacked.

Brian V.

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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2008
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    I managed to mis-identify this twice before getting help from Diptera.info.
    A "winter cranefly" - not a true cranefly but a member of the Trichoceridae family. Body length about 7mm. 2nd shot taken at 5:1- both shots are focus stacked.

    Brian V.

    Nice work Brian, I still wanna know how you fire off enough hand held shots, yet the bug doesn't move and you stack them ever so perfectly eek7.gif

    Please continue to intrigue me with you awesome work,
    I love it clap.gif thanks for sharing Brian ..... Skippy :D
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited January 1, 2008
    Veru beautiful ! eek7.gif
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    Thanks for looking and commenting Skippy and Awais :)- much appreciated.

    Skippy- getting multiple shots depends on the bug, what it's doing and the temperature. They are much less likely to hang around if they are warmed up for flight. Suspect I'd have more trouble with temps around 30.C :)
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  • steplimsteplim Registered Users Posts: 56 Big grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    A winter cranefly
    Hi Brian,
    As usual, awesome and the power of MPE65!:ivar
    Best Regards
    Stephen

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  • ArvanArvan Registered Users Posts: 888 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    haha allways stunned by your work with them bugs!..Darn amazing clap.gifclap
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited January 3, 2008
    Thanks Steplim and Arvan :)

    Brian V.
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  • patricia kaypatricia kay Registered Users Posts: 206 Major grins
    edited January 4, 2008
    Great shot Brian....hes an ugly one though!!! Yet anither one i havent seen live!!! Learning all the time...Thank you!!!

    Patricia.....:D
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