assorted macro creepy crawlies.

[asimov]

Heres some more macro shots I took on our walk today.

I missed out on a scorpion & a centipede....too quick for me to get a decent shot.

Kodak 6340 easyshare.

[RB]

Awesome shots John.

:cool:

[iceman]

Nice shots! Those ants look nasty!

[davidpretorius]

"i find a 7x14 LR deconvolution followed by a lingust rotational transition and a small touch of gamma separation, clockwise of course really makes the original image of a spider look like a stick insect"

I like these, it is nice for a change to take a photo and not have to do anything to it!

Jess and Amy are fascinated by a large wolf spider that has taken up residence in the garden. It is the largest hole i have seen made by a spider (1" diameter). Every visitor we get, Amy (the 2yr old) gets straight into explaining about the spider and then grabs the library books on spiders they have borrowed and wants them to read it to her.

[ving]

lol dave!
had a 3 legged wolf spider in our house recently.... cats got to it

nice shots, like the ants :)

[asimov]

thanks all.

Hey Dave, show Jess & Amy this spider hole, complete with trap door! (20mm dia.) :)

[davidpretorius]

ever seen a 2 yr old talk to a spider on the laptop screen explaining we have a spider in the garden??? a real crack up!

[beren]

Nice shots John , you were game to get that close to a bull ant , I suspect if you had some in front of you there would of been some behind you :whistle: interesting colours on the first spider

[asimov]

Lol Beren....Don't worry, I was MOST attentive as to what was behind me while shooting I assure you! :scared: :)

These ants are extremely aggressive & fear is NOT part of their makeup....but it's part of mine lol! :help:

Amy (Dave P's daughter) Hunted high & low for a spider & this is the best I could do :confused: It's only about 5mm in diametre & lives in my junk room in a lil' hole in a card board box. :) He/she is well camouflaged against the carpet, so I'll call him/her a carpet spider! :lol:

[asimov]

Oh, I forgot to add these pics from our trip to the beach yesterday.

Not sure on the official name of this insect, but it was a cross between a blowfly & a bee (about the same size) & hovered like a humming bird, guarding it's home in the sand.:)

[davidpretorius]

thanks asimov, i will show her in the morning!

she will love it!

[RB]

Once again they're awesome shots John.
Thanks for sharing.

:)

[ving]

that hovering fly looks great!!! :D

[Volans]

WOW..those images of the White Striped Sand Hoverfly (Musca leucostomachus var. harena) are fantastic!! Well done. May I ask what lens you used?

[asimov]

Sounds like you know your insects Volans.

The camera is just a kodak easyshare 6340 zoom 3.1 meg. (In macro mode)

[asimov]

A bee on a piece of watermellon. :D

[RB]

Awesome shot John, love the colours too.
Would've been a good one too for the Photo challenge this month.

:)

[davidpretorius]

that bee is excellent!

[Volans]

G'day Asimov,

To be honest I don't know my insects at all well. I made that name up, if you translate the Latin then you get what I wrote in English..but it does look like a hoverfly of some description. The image of the bee (Apis megastingus var. hurtii) ;) is a corker!

Macro shots of insects are quite difficult, primarily because the little sods insist on moving about the place. I tried taking images of a small praying mantis once but it kept doing that "swaying in the pretend breeze" motion so it always turned out blurred.

Peter (Petrum volantis var. stultus).

[asimov]

Just finished making a macro lens for the Kodak to get up even closer to creatures, & here's the result.:cool:

This little spider has a leg-span of 3mm that I just spotted climbing the wall. The surface it's on is wallpaper.

[Mikezoom]

asi.... that looks like a baby whitetail... infact I would swear on it. :scared:

[asimov]

Correct sir!

There's heaps of white tails where I am.:confuse3:

[EzyStyles]

you sure have heaps of insects around :) nice shots keep em coming.

[asimov]

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[davidpretorius]

thanks asimov, amy will lov em!

[asimov]

:thumbsup:

[asimov]

AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!:scared:

I have my own ready-made horror movie outside under the carport tonight!

Spiders everywhere!

Ok, I'm gonna have to get me a studio floodlight setup out there rather than the flash on the camera........:scared2:

Oh geez! Talk about 'face your worst fear'....I HATE SPIDERS!!

AAAAHHH!

[asimov]

:cool:

[iceman]

Wow john, that's some nasty looking critters right there! Take a picture of one squashed under your foot! :P

[asimov]

What, & upset Amy!? No way! ;)

Seeing it took me close on 70 secs to get into this thread/load this page, may as well upload some more pics, hey? :)

Some sort of wasp, & the lil'-bitty mossie look a like.....not sure what it is but only like 2mm body length.

[davidpretorius]

i have just had both girls sitting on my knee. amy was saying hello to your spiders and bee. the older one pretended to be scared and amy patted her on the back and basically sad not to be scared!

[asimov]

lol. Don't be scared, all creatures have their spot in the big picture (not sure about spiders) Suffice to say, like snakes, spiders are more scared of us than we are of them! (I hope)..

[asimov]

:d ..

[RB]

The King of Macro.

Well done my friend, awesome shot.

[acropolite]

Not to mention Entomologist Extrordinaire...can we have some scientific names please Asinsect ;)

[asimov]

Gee Phil, you just want it all don't you? :lol:

I'd love to give you the scientific names but I'm too lazy to do a google search on all these critters! :P

[RB]

All of Asi's critters are "Awesomus Insecticus" Phil. :rofl:

[asimov]

lol Andrew :rofl: Yeah that should cover it! :thumbsup:

I put insects in 2 catagories actually;) .....cat. 1 is the insects that deserve to have a size 9 steel-capped work boot mashed on them half a dozen times.....cat 2 are for the ones that don't deserve it :D

[asimov]

:screwy: :D ..

[asimov]

Well, it's saturday & I'm not working, what's a guy supposed to do while his wife is in America for god knows how long? Clean the house?:scared: ...gotta be joking!...Go to the pub?...hell no! gave that up.

That's right...prowl the house sneaking up on unsuspecting insects with a kodak camera! That's what one does! Just spent 5-6 hours sneaking up on house fly's trying for that ultimate close-up! :D

The things I do for you guys!:doh: ........:)

[asimov]

Dirty, filthy, disease-spreading, blood-sucking NASTY piece of work of an insect you!!:mad2:

[davidpretorius]

love the example of the booticus squashicus