Fluidr / Cheryl Dunlop Molin's "100 Insects of 2021" set

grasshopper

N 6 B 315 C 0 E Mar 26, 2021 F Mar 28, 2021

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First insect shot with my new camera. There were quite a few bees and flies about, too, but they were warm enough to get away from the camera.

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European paper wasps

N 12 B 578 C 9 E Apr 3, 2021 F Apr 4, 2021

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2/100
Flickr Lounge: macro

This was a fun workout for my new camera. It was tricky on several levels. One, anytime you're shooting stinging insects on macro, you are taking a risk of offending (though apparently paper wasps aren't nearly as easily offended as yellow jackets). Two, my footing wasn't the best. Three, choosing to use the Raynox lens makes for a shallow depth of field that is tricky enough for one insect, and using it to shoot two risks losing the shot. In fact it went back and forth on focus, sometimes having one wasp in focus, sometimes the other, sometimes both--and a couple of times I shot too quickly and got neither. But I ended up with a series of shots I really like.

Size of insect: about 3/4 inch long.

Having confirmed I'm ready for insect macro shots, bring on summer! :-)

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bright red coat

N 2 B 65 C 0 E Apr 4, 2021 F Apr 5, 2021

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3/100

I didn't manage to get any shots with both the head and the wings in focus, but since the wings were what I found especially beautiful and interesting, I posted a shot that shows them. Possibly a cardinal beetle, black-headed cardinal beetle, Pyrochroa coccinea; I haven't been able to discover whether the wings are textured like these.

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resting pretty

N 4 B 158 C 5 E Apr 22, 2021 F Apr 23, 2021

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small ichneumon wasp or sawfly

why you take a dozen photos of a fly

N 2 B 112 C 0 E Apr 27, 2021 F Apr 29, 2021

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I took quite a few shots of this medium-sized fly on two or three different leaves, and as far as I could tell, several of them were sharp. Of course, usually a fly doesn't give you a dozen shots, usually there will be a good one among fewer, and often there is also something else waiting for its photo. But in this case I took 12 or 13 shots, and only the last two actually were sharp in every detail.