Post your BUG shots!

Olli wrote in post #19126068
Here is one example. To catch a snail and an ant head-to-head was a pure coincidence.

https://youtu.be/2dyLx​wq9WNY

Wow. Looks like the snail won that one.

A little brown beetle.

Amazing capture!

I'm not sure if those red specks are eggs or poop but I found that guy by following a red trail through the field of white fly eggs. The white flies leave the fly eggs field coated with honey dew where they lay eggs as food for the new flies that hatch according to what I have read. It said the ant colonies farm the honey dew and will fight off white fly predators who eat it. Apparently that includes the white flies too.

What I have learned this year is that a majority of the critters I filmed on my plants hatch into the critters who destroy the plants. The dead flower with all the beetle kind of shows the results of the worms and the biugs they turn into sucking the life out of the plants. The ladybugs are a little late for helping that flower survive them but as the picture shows the lady bugs thought they made a pretty tasty buffet.

The ladybugs in the picture are convergent lady beetles (Hippodamia convergens) purchased from Arbico Organics if anyone is in the market for beneficial insects.

It's the larvae of the ladybug who eat the aphids. Ants may eat them?(at least some ants eat any insect) but they do 'farm' them for the sweet honey dew.

Hoverfly.

Hi Everyone!
Used to post here on a regular basis,a few years ago,but stopped shooting macro,and went to bird photography!
Started back macro but instead of my old rig( 5dmk3/mpe-65/mt24 flash ),I was curious about micro 4/3.Picked up an Olympus EM-1 MK2/Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro,Laowa 50mm 1-2x,ST8 dual flash,Meike 320 flash,extension tubes,and a Raynox250,so lots of new toys to play with.Unfortubately the macro season is shortly coming to an end here in Ontario Canada.
Why the switch from Canon? I,m in my mid sixties and wanted something lighter,Ibis is nice,options to focus stack,focus bracketing are bonuses,and it fits my one handed technique better!
One of my first shots with the Olympus combo.Diffusion is a work in progress!
Ambush bug female
EM-1 MK2

Welcome back to the tiny world.

Thank you!
I,ve never really left macro,as i,ve been doing high speed water drop photography with macro lens,but not the same!

mandokid1 wrote in post #19126762
Hi Everyone!
Used to post here on a regular basis,a few years ago,but stopped shooting macro,and went to bird photography!
Started back macro but instead of my old rig( 5dmk3/mpe-65/mt24 flash ),I was curious about micro 4/3.Picked up an Olympus EM-1 MK2/Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro,Laowa 50mm 1-2x,ST8 dual flash,Meike 320 flash,extension tubes,and a Raynox250,so lots of new toys to play with.Unfortubately the macro season is shortly coming to an end here in Ontario Canada.
Why the switch from Canon? I,m in my mid sixties and wanted something lighter,Ibis is nice,options to focus stack,focus bracketing are bonuses,and it fits my one handed technique better!
One of my first shots with the Olympus combo.Diffusion is a work in progress!
Ambush bug female
EM-1 MK2

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What a nice ambush bug! Good to hear that Olympus is giving you the results you want.

Yellowjacket licking the surface of a leaf.

Archibald wrote in post #19126738
Hoverfly.

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Wonderful composition!

Archibald wrote in post #19126821
What a nice ambush bug! Good to hear that Olympus is giving you the results you want.

Thank you.
So far so good!

Archibald wrote in post #19126898
Yellowjacket licking the surface of a leaf.

Excellent image Archibald!

Blue Winged Wasp

Monarch caterpillar