And other random arthropods I decide to photograph.
First one, Monomorium minimum:
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e168/ZLB/Feast.jpg)
Note: the area of that photo is less than a square centimeter.
What are they eating?
Did you give them a nice drop of sugar syrup?
(btw- that's a nice shot, i like the colors)
Yeah, its syrup. I didn't give them anything; the roommate leaves his pancake mess on the counter all too often. They smell and come in the window sill. I found them sipping on the counter and exploited it.
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cool photo!
You using some kind of specialist macro-camera Kai or is that just done on an ordinary one?
I love it.
Please to graph more photos?
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on April 09, 2009, 05:57:01 PM
You using some kind of specialist macro-camera Kai or is that just done on an ordinary one?
Its a Cannon PowerShot S5 IS, and completely as it was originally purchased. One of the many options is the supermacro zoom, which allows you to take photographs very very close up.
I saw these ants in my apartment kitchen gathered around this drop of syrup, and I decided to spend 30 minutes trying to make a shot. So, I put it on super macro, turned the fstop as low as possible, upped the shutter speed as high as I could go with the light involved, and rested the lens on the countertop. The lens was maybe only 1-2 cm from the actual subjects. Then I backlit with a flashlight just resting on the counter. On the computer, I upped the brightness, contrast and saturation a bit, and cropped it down till I had a photo of a minute scene, the one you see above.
When I went to purchase a camera, I wanted one that could do good macro with very little adjustment, and this one worked out great.
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e168/ZLB/IMG_0205.jpg)
Hexagenia (Ephemeroptera: Ephemeridae) from June of last year. Edit: Just realized this is a subimago, the sub-adult winged stage of mayflies. You can tell because the wings are waxy and opaque and not hyaline.
These are strangely beautiful! So intricate & perfect looking.
These are awesome! Makes me want to be be a entomologist
Mate guarding in long horned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae):
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e168/ZLB/IMG_0719.jpg)
Long horned beetle stuck halfway in a failed emergence from a tree stump:
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e168/ZLB/IMG_0725.jpg)
And a Fowler's Toad in the dark (not an insect, but still cool):
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e168/ZLB/IMG_0731.jpg)
Quote from: Kai on April 26, 2009, 05:05:50 AM
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e168/ZLB/IMG_0731.jpg)
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Quote from: Idem on April 26, 2009, 05:17:20 AM:mittens:
Seconded!
And that beetle stuck in the tree trunk is tragic. :sad:
BTW, the fowler's toads sound like babies screaming. Imagine a baby's scream during that photo and you get the full effect.
Edit: Cf. http://puca.home.mindspring.com/mp3s/Fowler%27s.Toad.mp3 (http://puca.home.mindspring.com/mp3s/Fowler%27s.Toad.mp3)
I enjoyed that. My children did too. :)
glad you liked it
I stole that frog picture and put it as my desktop. very dramatic.