Perpetual insect photo thread

[Wesan]

Nice pictures, fidlin. I can't see the first three here, though. But I found them on photobucket. Looks like part of the address to them is missing in the posts here.

[Rooz]

couple more ladybugs. they're slow so easy for a macro-hack like me to get right.

[cat]

Heck the ladybuds by me go supersonic the minute I wave my lens in their general direction


Caught this newly hatched damselfly drying his wings though..

[r3g]

Gorgeous colors in that one cat

[Pepper]

i tried to keep spiders indoors so i could shoot them at leasiure, but i found it too irritating too generate a nice background. and it's not very nice to wake up witha massive spider on your face.

I really REALLY hope you're joking!

*arachnophobe*
Pepper

[Gary_P]

*arachnophobe*
Pepper

Pepper, spiders are nice critters. A lot of people are afraid of them but most of them can't hurt you.
The huge daddy long legs ones eat a mess of stuff, and their fangs are not long enough to bite you, but my wife won't go near one.

Spiders are one of the critters I scoop up in a tissue and take outside. They eat all the bugs that bite and make you itch.
One time there was a huge one in our office. Too big for a tissue, and I got him/her outside in a soda can, we ripped the top off of.

They called it Boris because he was so big. I'd would have loved a picture of him/her but I wasn't taking any chances of it biting me. It was the first one I was ever really careful of.

~G

[Prospero]

Here's a picture of a insect I saw in the garden today:

[cat]

Looks like a shield bug of some kind.

Another arghhhh day for me... found a couple of shield bugs mating but they were far too busy 'doin' their thang' to oblige me with a decent pose!!!

I really need to start carrying an emergency macro kit as well... gloves for when I find myself resting on stingers, something soft to kneel on and a pair of scissors for removing unattractive foliage from my background!!!!!

[fidlin]

Hi everybody,
Still new around here, and still new to the digital photography world. Been playing around with my macro lens. Here are some I took today.

Ok, I always put up the links ONCE, but somehow it seems I get them to show up twice in my posts - and I donīt know why . Hoping they show up only ONCE this time.

[AdamW]

A bee, with the Sigma semi-macro lens.