Insects

[Jack Dawe]

Scaeva Pyrastri

 

[Jack Dawe]

European Beewolf

 

[Jack Dawe]

Red-banded Sand wasp

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

See? I do try to shoot bugs!

 

[Blackbird]

That’s not macro!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Oh! It's the Macro thread.

I will move it elsewhere!

Done!

 

[Macstory]

A 'Common Hawker' I think. Taken with my Tamron 600mm 'no crop'. I only tried it because it was out amongst the reeds in the canal and I would have had to paddle to get to it.
(Lens: Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

A 'Common Hawker' I think. Taken with my Tamron 600mm 'no crop'. I only tried it because it was out amongst the reeds in the canal and I would have had to paddle to get to it.
(Lens: Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).View attachment 1460

That's a good one, Mac.

I have to come up with something better than that swarm...

 

[Macstory]

Hi Levina, Thank You. I was surprised how close I could get with a lens like that, I know my 70-300 gets me pretty close to subjects but a 150 - 600mm,

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Hi Levina, Thank You. I was surprised how close I could get with a lens like that, I know my 70-300 gets me pretty close to subjects but a 150 - 600mm,

It's quite amazing how much difference there is between 300mm and 600mm. Even going from my EF 400/5.6L to 500mm with the RF 100-500L is quite noticeable and that is just 100mm.

 

[Macstory]

My guess (Female, Northern Damselfly)
(FL: 90mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Macro <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 70D).

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

My guess (Female, Northern Damselfly)
(FL: 90mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Macro <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 70D).

View attachment 1655

Cracking shot, Mac. Nailed focus. Can’t help with the ID. To me they all look the same…

 

[Mikbone]

Cucumber Spider and Dog Rose

 

[Mikbone]

Lady bird

 

[Macstory]

Cracking shot, Mac. Nailed focus. Can’t help with the ID. To me they all look the same…

Hi Levina, Thank You.

With me and photography, I love taking the birds the insects and the Wildflowers amongst other stuff, to be knowledgable in the above themes I'd have to be an Ornithologist an Entomologist and a botanist and that's not happening any time soon so I struggle along with the help of google.

 

[pcs]

Try ObsIdentify(android or iOS).

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Try ObsIdentify(android or iOS).

Yes! Yesterday I was looking at some flowers that I took years ago. Always wondered what they were and if they are in fact "native" so I could maybe post them in the Native Wildflower thread. After reading here that Obsidentify could ID those too, I gave it a try last night and it worked (it was brassica rapa)! I should have known that though, because whenever I go into "explore" mode on their site, I need to select "birds" to avoid getting insects and mosses and flowers and what have you, in the search results.

It's a pretty brilliant app. I think you were the one back on POTN who mentioned it first to me in the WBoE thread. And it's been an tremendous help.

Is it me or is the spellchecker on the site extremely aggressive?!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Cucumber Spider and Dog Rose
View attachment 1661

That is beautiful!

 

[Macstory]

Try ObsIdentify(android or iOS).

Hi pcs thanks for the info I'll give that a try

 

[Macstory]

Hi pcs thanks for the info I'll give that a try

I've installed it and tried it on the damselfly it has identified it as a 'Common Bluetail' with a 73% certainty. That's good enough for me.