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Related: About this foruma couple more insect photos
These are two recent insect photos from the Humboldt State University teaching collection. I shot both of these with a Tokina AT X Pro D Macro 100mm f/2.8. The blister beetle photo had a Raynox 150 added to the macro lens.
Ulochaetes leoninus, the long horned lion beetle. Trinity Co. California, 2019.
Lytta nuttalli, Nuttall's blister beetle. McKenzie Co. North Dakota, 2003.
I hope you like them. Full resolution images are at https://mcamann.smugmug.com/Insect-macro-photography .
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a couple more insect photos (Original Post)
mike_c
Nov 2019
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,629 posts)1. I sure do like them, Mike! They are gorgeous.
These are excellent macros. Full of details and great colors.
I can even see the mane on the first one, and I love the iridescent colors of the second one.
Thank you!
mike_c
(36,281 posts)4. Thank you. I love iridescence.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)2. These and your other posted photos are extraordinary. Amazing.
eppur_se_muova
(36,266 posts)3. Wow, that sure looks like bumblebee mimicry !
"Warning to predators: you don't want to try to eat me !"
mike_c
(36,281 posts)6. Yep. Here's another...
Laphria columbica, a bee mimic robber fly.