Mirid Bug Heterotoma planicornis

This is another of the bugs which hide when they detect your presence. However, they quickly reappear or can be seen on the underside of a leaf. The images here show one on the upper side of a leaf and in it cave-like retreat between the upper surface of one leaf and the lower surface of one close above. I have also tried to show a representative selection of the semaphore-like positioning of its antennae.

http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Miridae/heterotoma_planicornis.html

EM-1, Kiron 105, f16, twin TTL RC flash, hand-held.

Most of these have been significantly cropped.

Harold











I would like to have had a better image of the next image but I never got that shot again.