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A couple shots of Chinese Mantis.
A beautiful killing machine.A couple shots of Chinese Mantis.
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Yes they are. It's a good thing we're as big as we are, its definitely a bug eat bug world out there!A beautiful killing machine.
Very true. I said the same thing when I had a cat. Yeah, they can be nice, but, sometimes when they look at you, you’re glad they don’t weigh 50 pounds.Yes they are. It's a good thing we're as big as we are, its definitely a bug eat bug world out there!
I think you're right there. At least the bug would do it for food. The cat would do it, because they're bored.Very true. I said the same thing when I had a cat. Yeah, they can be nice, but, sometimes when they look at you, you’re glad they don’t weigh 50 pounds.
On edit: mantises have such symmetry.
The last one reminds me of a story my son tells, of the time he was on his bicycle and a deerfly landed on his arm. He was going over some rough terrain so he could not risk letting go of the handle bar with one hand to swat it. Then suddenly a large dragonfly (possibly a whitetail skimmer) zoomed in, grabbed the deerfly, and flew off with it before he got bitten.Here are a couple of dragonflies taken on 2 different Fujifilm Super Zoom Bridge cameras.
Thanks for the tip Dave, I'll have to try to check that out.@troy if you haven't seen it, the Fall 2018 issue of Popular Science has a good number of extreme bug closeups featured, very cool pictures.
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Great story John, thanks for sharing!The last one reminds me of a story my son tells, of the time he was on his bicycle and a deerfly landed on his arm. He was going over some rough terrain so he could not risk letting go of the handle bar with one hand to swat it. Then suddenly a large dragonfly (possibly a whitetail skimmer) zoomed in, grabbed the deerfly, and flew off with it before he got bitten.
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Not the sharpest of images, taken with an older iPod touch, but it's what I had with me.
I had seen this a year ago on an alder bush, and thought it was some kind of fungus. This year I looked it up and it turns out to be a lot of Woolly Aphids.
Individually they're kind of cute, as insects go. The fuzz is some kind of waxy stuff that they secrete.
Nice shot!Older photo but still applies. This guy hitched a ride on one of us or the dog and was found crawling on the wall inside. A male (one of genus Dermacentor I believe) thankfully so no bite worry. I'm not a macro wizard and ticks are also incredibly small, so it's not the best shot but I still like it.
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Nice shot!
Ticks are tiny, but very creepy!
Nice ones Dave! I've seen a lot of tiny moths this year, but none of the big ones yet.Not so creepy or crawler but insect and they're sneaking inside now.
Moth and ghost + moth alone...
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