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Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 9:46 am
by wollastoni
As picture attachment is the great asset of this new forum, let's share your best insect live shot !
I met this huge Asilidae eating an ichneumonidae on Koh Phiphi island (Thailand) in 2016. Picture with a Tamron 180mm.
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Mon May 23, 2022 11:44 am
by wollastoni
To give you a scale, this Asilidae was a monster : around 4 cm in length!
I would be happy to have an identification of the 2 species if anyone can help or know who could help.
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 3:12 pm
by Papilio_indra
Great photo of the robber fly with its prey!
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I thought I'd give the new picture posting method a try: This is a male example of Speyeria cybele letona photographed in Franklin county, Idaho, in summer 2021.
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 3:38 pm
by wollastoni
NA Speyeria are wonderful ! Nice close-up !
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 3:28 am
by Eleodes
Probably not my best, but definitely one of my favorites
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Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 10:22 am
by wolf
Boloria improba improbula
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Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 11:37 pm
by daveuk
A male Myscelia orsis I photographed on my last day in Iguazu National Park,Misiones ,Argentina in August 2018. Not a great specimen but it was one that I really wanted to see & this was the only one that I did.
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 9:45 am
by wollastoni
Myscelia orsis is a wonderful species indeed !
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:51 pm
by lamprima2
Planet of Bugs
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:45 pm
by Papilio_indra
A Ranchman's tiger moth, Arctia virginalis, today (June 30, 2022) in the Wellsville Mountain Wilderness in northern Utah.
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:15 pm
by livingplanet3
Alaus lusciosus, May 18, 2006, Tarrant Co. TX.
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 11:14 pm
by daveuk
Male & female Brimstone butterflies (Gonepteryx rhamni)
Photographed 15thAugust 2015 & 26th August 2021
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:57 am
by kevinkk
My new pet, caught at Lost Lake in Linn county Oregon, identified with help,
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as Coelocnemis dilaticollis apparently these can live up to 3 years-
it remains to be seen.
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 12:12 pm
by mothman55
Took this pic two days ago, love the Baltimores.
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Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 1:14 pm
by wollastoni
Wonderful ! Which species is it ?
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:13 pm
by mothman55
Euphydryas phaeton from Markham, Ontario, Canada
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:05 am
by Panacanthus
I don't frequently photograph live insects in the wild, but here are a few rather old photos taken at the back yard koi pond (Chandler, Arizona). I don't know if a single common bumblebee even counts lol!! I also don't know the dragonfly species.
The "black water" of the dragonfly photo is just how it turned out. It was not "blacked out" intentionally.
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Some fungus beetles,
Cypherotylus californicus, at Madera Canyon, Arizona. Photo taken years ago during a collecting trip.
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Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2022 2:19 pm
by livingplanet3
Panacanthus wrote: ↑Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:05 am
I also don't know the dragonfly species...
Probably Pachydiplax longipennis -
http://azdragonfly.org/species/blue-dasher
https://bugguide.net/node/view/598
Re: Your best live insect picture !
Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2022 10:44 pm
by Papilio_indra
Taken this morning near Tremonton, Utah, Limenitis archippus lahontani (male).