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Sony Nex 5N with Canon FD 50mm F3.5 Macro lens
Sony Nex 5N with Minolta MC 50mm F3.5 Macro lens
Dang KC,,,those are great pictures...IMHO bugs are awesome!!
Damn Kcc123. You must have been within 18 inches to get such shots with a 50mm Macro. Lovely bokeh too. What exposure settings were you using? I shoot a great deal of underwater macro using either a 60mm or a 100mm macro and have a hard time getting such vibrant pics. Well done.Sony Nex 5N with Canon FD 50mm F3.5 Macro lens
Sony Nex 5N with Minolta MC 50mm F3.5 Macro lens
Was getting a cup of coffee this weekend and noticed an animal roaming in my back yard. She came across the patio and took up a watch station by the back corner of the house, and is clearly a nice sized bobcat. After a few minutes she went out the back fence and was joined by two cubs and took them into the woods behind the house.
I've got a creek and woods behind the house, but live due north of DFW Airport, so I'm not in the boonies. Wonder what else is roaming around out there?
I've got a creek and woods behind the house, but live due north of DFW Airport, so I'm not in the boonies. Wonder what else is roaming around out there?
MaxxVolume
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When pets go bad....
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Eywadude
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Here is a picture I took in my backyard last summer. This is a tomato hornworm that has been parasitized by the larvae of a certain species of parasitic wasp. Each one of those white things is actually a silk cocoon that the larvae spin for protection. Essentially, they use the caterpillar as a host and feed of its bodily fluids and nutrients, and it eventually dies. As neat as this caterpillar looks, it was actually a parasite itself to my tomato plants, so essentially the parasitic wasps did me a favor. The hornworm has a voracious appetite for the greenery of the tomato plant, and left unmitigated, it is capable of eating quite a bit in a day's work. I clipped this tomato branch off to take this picture and then I just put the hornworm back on my plant to let nature take its course. As parasitized as the hornworm was, there was no way it was going to feed any longer anyway. The funny thing was that the day after I found that hornworm, I discovered a cluster of 5-6 other hornworms on my plants, all of which had been parasitized too! After about 7-10 days, they all died and fell off for removal.
I always like to allow nature to take its course instead of panicking and unnecessarily killing both the caterpillar and the wasp larvae. If it was just the hornworm without the parasites, I would have removed them from my plants immediately. But since they were parasitized, I had no issue with it. Those little wasp larvae were doing me a favor! lol Since the wasp poses absolutely no threat to humans whatsoever, I just let them be.
I always like to allow nature to take its course instead of panicking and unnecessarily killing both the caterpillar and the wasp larvae. If it was just the hornworm without the parasites, I would have removed them from my plants immediately. But since they were parasitized, I had no issue with it. Those little wasp larvae were doing me a favor! lol Since the wasp poses absolutely no threat to humans whatsoever, I just let them be.
Sand hill cranes at Whitewater Draw near McNeal Arizona, January 23, 2016
Whitewater Draw album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42002845@N02/albums/72157664745016656
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42002845@N02/albums/72157664745016656
