Share your insect/bug/arachnid shots.

[evacguy]

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It's like they're dancing...


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What is that black insect. He looks amazing!

 

[MeowZzz]

What is that black insect. He looks amazing!

It is a bee of some kind (jpeg image from the camera)

 

[MeowZzz]

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 141.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 320

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 125.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[alexpler]

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I like the colors and composition of the first shot. It's more elegant and you get a better understanding of the scene than in the 2nd.

 

[MeowZzz]

I like the colors and composition of the first shot. It's more elegant and you get a better understanding of the scene than in the 2nd.

Me three, but you get to see its wings in the other. I had not seen a bee like this before

 

[GvilleRick]

Grasshopper in a field where I was watching Swallow-Tailed Kites. Possibly a future snack for one of the kites.

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/1600 sec
• ISO 640

 

[evacguy]

It is a bee of some kind (jpeg image from the camera)

The wings look bee like, but the large black body doesn’t look like that of a bee. Also, I can’t make out if it has hairs on its body.

Grasshopper in a field where I was watching Swallow-Tailed Kites. Possibly a future snack for one of the kites.View attachment 45976

I love the colours on this guy.

 

[evacguy]

Another bee enjoying the nectar from the New Forest. The hotel has five bee hives in their kitchen garden, and we get to enjoy their honey at breakfast.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/8000 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[alexpler]

Grasshopper in a field where I was watching Swallow-Tailed Kites. Possibly a future snack for one of the kites.View attachment 45976

Nice catch!

 

[spudhead]

hoverfly a9 lea-5 300 g 2.8

• ILCA-99M2
• 300mm F2.8 G
• 300.0 mm
• ƒ/3.2
• 1/2500 sec
• ISO 250

 

[GvilleRick]

A few insects from my yard this afternoon.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

• ILCE-7RM5
• 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art 018
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 2500

Same insect a little closer view

• ILCE-7RM5
• 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art 018
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/640 sec
• ISO 3200

Common Eastern Bumblebee

• ILCE-7RM5
• 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art 018
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 125

One of many Blue-Winged Wasps

• ILCE-7RM5
• 70mm F2.8 DG MACRO | Art 018
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 125

Carpenter Bee

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 250.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 250

Wasp and Bumblebee

• ILCE-7RM5
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS
• 318.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 500

 

[iamdlewis]

This is call a

• ILCE-1
• Sony FE 200–600mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G)
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 2000

 

[Ralph]

Red Beetles gathering on mass in the bushland area's close to home.

• ILCE-7M3
• 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG DN OS | Sports 021
• 150.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/1250 sec
• ISO 800

 

[spudhead]

A few insects from my yard this afternoon.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
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Same insect a little closer view
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Common Eastern Bumblebee
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One of many Blue-Winged Wasps
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Carpenter Bee
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Wasp and Bumblebee
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these 2 look well hard not sure I would hang around near these for long

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Garden Cross Spider - Araneus Diademetus. The spiders responsible for all of those sticky webs as you exit your house at this time of year. This one is mid web spin.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/14
• 1/160 sec
• ISO 100

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/14
• 1/160 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Moving some things around in the garden today and uncovered this awesome and angry chap! It's a Devils Coach Horse Beetle, one of the Rove Beetles. Voracious predators of invertebrates, they hunt after dark and crush prey in their pincers. Every spider within 2 feet of it shot off as soon as he was spotted! They curl their tail like a scorpion when threatened BTW, so clearly he was threatened by the Macro.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/16
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 160

 

[spudhead]

spider and pray

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) + 1.4X Teleconverter (SEL14TC)
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 8000

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) + 1.4X Teleconverter (SEL14TC)
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/14
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 10000

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) + 1.4X Teleconverter (SEL14TC)
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 5000

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Top shots Gary. poor dragon...

 

[spudhead]

Top shots Gary. poor dragon...

Thanks Kev it is funny because I have been trying to give the 200-6000 and 1.4 tc a work out the last couple of weeks, so you can see the spider and prey when up close then I needed to walk back 16-18 feet for the shot, tbh I possibly have some better shots I just do not want to edit everything anymore it is time consuming

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Thanks Kev it is funny because I have been trying to give the 200-6000 and 1.4 tc a work out the last couple of weeks, so you can see the spider and prey when up close then I needed to walk back 16-18 feet for the shot, tbh I possibly have some better shots I just do not want to edit everything anymore it is time consuming

Yeah I'm way behind on editing because I do take a fair few moth pics when I trap, and so other stuff gets left. It takes a long time to go through and I'm not always in the mood.

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Beautiful Furrow Orbweaver on my walkabout this morning.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS
• 600.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 800

 

[iamdlewis]

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 1600

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/800 sec
• ISO 1600

 

[MeowZzz]

• ILCE-7M4
• Sony FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS (SEL100400GM)
• 394.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 5000

There are tons of these all over the island. Some bigger than ya hand

 

[spudhead]

Jez that looks nasty

 

[BrianN]

Was watching this spider go about it's business before I got this image.

 

[spudhead]

Was a strange day, as we almost stepped on a snake on the way into the park (but this ain't a snake thread - ONLY one I have seen all year, which is odd) - and to make it stranger, I was on the loo when I kept hearing this rusty metal/scraping coming from behind the block. I thought, ah it must just be the wind blowing something (as you would and being as we have another typhoon going on here) --- but upon washing my hands, I noticed all the camera gear on the ground just off the path. And then my wife popped her head around the corner, signalling with her finger, "shh" - she then passed me the viewfinder to look into, and there was a Crested Goshawk in a tree there right behind the park toilets that she had snapped --- at least I believe it is, as I find it easy to mix this one up with the Little Sparrowhawk; but its bloomers and eyes and talon size seem more like the former than the latter.

I am confused?

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

A nice Dusky Thorn moth in the early morning dew this morning.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/16
• 1/160 sec
• ISO 100

 

[Uncle Kevriano]

Common Carder Bee on the Cosmos in our garden. I should have stepped back half a step to get the whole flower head in, but it's only a tiny tiny bit missing Huge flower head, small Bee.

• ILCE-7RM4
• FE 90mm F2.8 Macro G OSS
• 90.0 mm
• ƒ/20
• 1/160 sec
• ISO 100

 

[spudhead]

A bee from Saturday while testing the 200-600 and 1.4x

• ILCE-9
• Sony FE 200–600 mm F5.6–6.3 G OSS (SEL200600G) + 1.4X Teleconverter (SEL14TC)
• 840.0 mm
• ƒ/13
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 2000

 

[Clide]

Not my usual genre, but I was out walking close to noon with a blazing sun and discovered these beauties.

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 560.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 800

• ILCE-7M4
• FE 100-400mm F4.5-5.6 GM OSS + 1.4X Teleconverter
• 350.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 500