Post your BUG photos here

[Archibald]

This thread is for closeup pics of insects and other small arthropods like spiders and centipedes. (Arthropod = creature with jointed legs.)

Here are two photos start it off.

Four-lined Plant Bug

• Canon EOS R7
• RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 160

Red Admiral butterfly

• Canon EOS R7
• RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 160

 

[Archibald]

And two more:

Sweat Bee on daisy

• Canon EOS R7
• RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 160

Bumpy-looking grasshopper.

• Canon EOS R7
• RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 160

 

[Only RF]

You are doing some nice work. Keep it up. Many years ago I had the MP-E 65mm and the twin flash but just lost interest. I like viewing macros.

 

[Archibald]

You are doing some nice work. Keep it up. Many years ago I had the MP-E 65mm and the twin flash but just lost interest. I like viewing macros.

I still have mine, but that lens is awful to use in the field. When you preset it for (say) 2x, then it is extremely difficult to find your (tiny) subject. While you are searching, the little bug notices the glass bearing down on it and it goes under the leaf.

It is a great lens in the macro studio, though. I mount it on a tabletop mount and can then adjust it as I wish.

 

[Only RF]

I still have mine, but that lens is awful to use in the field. When you preset it for (say) 2x, then it is extremely difficult to find your (tiny) subject. While you are searching, the little bug notices the glass bearing down on it and it goes under the leaf.

It is a great lens in the macro studio, though. I mount it on a tabletop mount and can then adjust it as I wish.

I agree. It was too much of a specialty lens for me. I got much more use out of my 100 macro.

 

[Archibald]

Hoverfly ready for takeoff. Taken last May in Indiana. Note the halteres (little paddles where the wings attach to the body). They are vestigial hind wings.

• Canon EOS 90D
• EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 200

 

[Archibald]

Lygus bug. These guys are common but small.

• Canon EOS R5
• EF100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 160

 

[Stephen]

Nice job. Winter has started, and there are fewer bugs here. I like your hoverfly photo very much as it looks very natural.

 

[Archibald]

Nice job. Winter has started, and there are fewer bugs here. I like your hoverfly photo very much as it looks very natural.

Thank you, Stephen. Feel free to post your bug pics here.

 

[Archibald]

A fly with red eyes, washing its hands. Taken last summer.

• Canon EOS R7
• RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 160