Saturday, 17 July 2010

Beasts of the Realm

The sun appeared fleetingly between showers this morning, so a chance to nip into the garden and see who (or rather what) was about.

I have no idea what these insects are called and I haven't a book to help, so we will just have to look and wonder!



Small Heath Butterfly   Coenonympha  pamphilus



Longhorn Beatle  Strangalia  maculata  



Soldier Beatle  Rhagonycha  fulva


Edit.

I have just received an educationalists slap on the ear from The Children's Mother who has patiently handed me our book of insects etc!

The pictures have now been titled.....


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7 comments:

  1. Rog17 July 2010 at 14:15

    Was one an earwig then?

    You are the new Attenborough Jon.

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  2. alexander j blair17 July 2010 at 21:48

    Longhorn homing-in on greenfly (I assume they eat them!) is particularly good. What lens are you using for this Jon? Need a recommendation for up close (and reasonably inexpensive).

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  3. Jon Storey17 July 2010 at 23:23

    Hi Alexander, the Longhorn shot was taken with a Nikon 18/55mm lens and the others were taken with a Sigma 70/300mm on macro setting. The Sigma is a pig to use for this sort of thing as the depth of is so shallow, less than 5mm for these shots taken at 1000mm range! But it is handy and the quality not too bad considering.....

    A dedicated Macro lens would be so much easier to use and give sharper results. I would look at Sigma macro when the time comes.

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  4. Anonymous18 July 2010 at 05:03

    wonderful bug shots & macros, gotta say they're the more attractive bugs i've seen for in a while.

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  5. mo18 July 2010 at 17:39

    WELL DONE The Children's Mother (and well done the photographer!)

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  6. sleepyduck18 July 2010 at 18:10

    Great bugshots!

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  7. impoftheyard23 July 2010 at 16:21

    Excellent shots and great to learn about them.

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