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  1. Murray Foote

    ๐•Š๐•–๐•”๐• ๐•Ÿ๐•• ๐”น๐•–๐•’๐•”๐•™ (๐•Ž๐•’๐•ค๐•™๐•š๐•Ÿ๐•˜๐•ฅ๐• ๐•Ÿ ๐•Š๐•ฅ๐•’๐•ฅ๐•– โ„‚๐• ๐•’๐•ค๐•ฅ) (16 images)

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  2. Murray Foote

    ๐—›๐—ผ๐—ต ๐—ฅ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ ((23 images)

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  3. Murray Foote

    ๐—›๐—ผ๐—ต ๐—ฅ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐Ÿญ (24 images)

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  4. Murray Foote

    ๐—ค๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐—น๐˜ ๐—ก๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ (25 images)

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  5. Will Thompson

    Show us your macro photos & equipment!

  6. Robert Watcher

    Photographing a yellow spec

    Having supper on our deck tonight, and I noticed this little yellow spec moving up and down in the tomato ๐Ÿ… plant. Realized it must be a small spider ๐Ÿ•ท๏ธ of some sort and got my macro lens out to investigate. Depth of Field was so razor thin that it was impossible to nail focus on any specific...
  7. Paul Iddon

    A rose sawfly, Oribatid mites (and bonus) plus a snout mite and a drinking spider!

    Did a bit of macro stuff last night... This is I think a rose sawfly (Arge pagana) trapped in a spider web: Here are Oribatid mites (about the size of a pin head) one of which has a passenger (could be a nematode): And a snout mite (very quick these are!): Finally: The first...
  8. Paul Iddon

    The spiders are making an appearance

    Quick look into the garden area tonight and my usual horde of spiders are beginning to show up. The jumping spider (Salticus scenicus) on the wall. The cellar spider(s) Pholcus phalangioides in the shed will soon fatten up with this years baby parlour, the Amauobious sp. are coming to drum on...
  9. Robert Watcher

    Wood Louse

    Visiting our friends this afternoon โ€”โ€” their grandchildren were busy in the back yard, collecting bugs and worms from under stumps and rocks. The kids were showing them to me and pulled out this absolutely minuscule little circle that they seemed to be aware was called a โ€œpotato bugโ€...
  10. Robert Watcher

    Miniatures

    Miniatures. Up close and personal. Everything under 1/2 - 3/4 in. Inexpensive kit lens with extension tubes. Processed on iPhone
  11. Robert Watcher

    Bizarre Coloured Roses

    INDOOR MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY Our daughter gave Anne a couple of coloured roses from the craft show that she attended. They are sitting on our kitchen island, so while Anne was away this morning I put my adapted macro lens with a couple of shorter extension tubes, onto my Olympus camera. For light...
  12. Paul Iddon

    Pseudoscorpion

    I've never seen one before - which considering how large it was (maybe 2mm) you'd think they would be easy to find - but not for me. This one was on my recycling bin tonight... Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the...
  13. Robert Watcher

    The smallest bee ever

    The smallest bee ever on Anneโ€™s back porch flowers this morning. These little pink flowers arenโ€™t much bigger than 1/4โ€ across and the bee was smaller than that. It may be a โ€œConfusing Furrow Beeโ€ which has sizes of 1/8th to 1/4 inch. Almost invisible creatures around that we donโ€™t pay much...
  14. Paul Iddon

    Getting closer to the wasps...

    I took an environmental photo first of a couple of wasps on an a fallen apple, then once I was happy that they were happy, I went in closer. Paul.
  15. Paul Iddon

    Steatoda bipunctata, Lithobius forficatus, and a Peribaodes rhomnoidaria

    I love photographing spiders even false widows... :) - this one is a rabbit-hutch spider - Steatoda bipunctata. Often seen indoors and in animal pens, garages, sheds, etc. Loves eating woodlice! Then there is one of my pet hates - Lithobius forficatus, most commonly known as the garden...
  16. Paul Iddon

    2 spiders and chalcid wasp.

    Two spiders out of the dozen or so that were on the fence the other night. First is a male rabbit hutch spider (Steatoda bipuncta - one of the false widows) and the other two are of a silver-sided sector female (Zygiella x-notata) making herself a meal of a midge. Following those are couple of...
  17. Paul Iddon

    The Beauty and the Beast - and the savagery of nature

    I actually felt dismayed as this sequence unfolded, but that's the way nature goes. On a small piece of rock covered in moss, the "beast" waited patiently, and the "beauty" just didn't seem to notice her, and succumbed to the bigger hunter... Amaurobius sp. and Salticus scenicus...
  18. Paul Iddon

    Vapourer cat, a mini-moth and spiders on the apple tree

    The apple tree was fruitful last night (more in other thread). Here are the first few - a vapourer moth caterpillar, a golden tortix moth, and 2 spiders. Paul.
  19. Paul Iddon

    Other apple tree dwellers

    I said the tree was fruitful last night - these are more of the discoveries... Ladybird prep, a caddis fly variant (Limnephilus flavicornis) and another sleeping tapered dronefly (Eristalis pertinax) and 2 different green lacewings. Paul.
  20. Paul Iddon

    Pleased with this bee!

    We got a small bee hotel in autumn last year and I have placed it on the wall in the garden and let it become naturalised. Now I'm pleased as punch to find a red mason bee taking up residence. Paul.
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