Small bugs

Some recent shots of small bugs. The car macro season seems to be starting
Brian V.

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Bark louse nymph about 2mm body length

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Great series Brian.

My favorites are the first and the third one, those a really

Congrats.

Laurent.

Hiya Brian,

Excellent series of shots/detail, the two Bark lice are my favorites the detail in the Adult is superb

Cheers for now
Mark

Great set Brian

Lovely shots Brian - whats the story with the flightless Wasps - why dont they have wings ? ...

not sure we've had a Thrip here before, good capture.

k you must be using the mp-e lens. great series on the little critter. i won't even see them if they sit next to me.

Bill

Hi Brian great series Ilove the aphid shot wonderful colour and detail its been a while since you posted any car macros
pete

Nice set of bugs that we don't normally see.

Amazing as always!

Cracking shots Brian, great work

Thanks for the looking and commenting everyone

Gordon - not sure what's going on with the wasps as both of these wasps looked to me as if they should have had wings. I couldn't really see any sign of them in the first wasp but the second one definitely had little vestigial wings. Spotted both late afternoon on my water barrels. You do get flightless wasps around this size but these just didn't look right.

RM - you were supposed to notice the springtail (a new one for me). I might be getting confused but I thought thrips were also called thunderflies that you posted a pic of recently ?

Bill - yes was using the MPE_65 around 3:1 to 5:1

Pete- as I mentioned the car macro season is just starting as where it is parked it has just started being shaded most of the day rather than in full sun (and very hot). Apart from that it hasn't exactly been sunny the last few days

Brian V.

How do you get all the shots of those really tiny guys?

I really need to get a better set up than just the 100mm macro. I keep seeing all these great critters in my house and can't get good enough lighting. Last night there was a wolf spider with spiderlings in my bathroom. I'm a little unnerved that I don't know where she is now, though. LOL

Nice shots!! The aphid is totally cool.

Great set of shots brian..great detail in all of them.

Alistair.

woman4life wrote in post #3779175
How do you get all the shots of those really tiny guys?

I really need to get a better set up than just the 100mm macro. I keep seeing all these great critters in my house and can't get good enough lighting. Last night there was a wolf spider with spiderlings in my bathroom. I'm a little unnerved that I don't know where she is now, though. LOL

Nice shots!! The aphid is totally cool.

Hi, - these are all taken with an MPE-65 betwen 3:1 and 5:1 magnification. You'd need to get a set of ext tubes (Jessops or Kenko) to take your macro lens to 2:1 and then perhaps reverse a 50mm lens on the front to get to 4:1. You do need an external flash though when doing high mag pics.

brian V.