Robber fly - Efferia? - feeding on Prosapia bicincta, the two lined spittlebug
Aug 30, 2020 18:34:07 #
Greetings to all my macro friends here on hedgehog. I don't think I've posted a macro all year, so here's my first offering. I was on my back deck with my granddaughter taking photos of hummingbirds when we were called to supper. On the way in, my granddaughter saw this critter on my deck door and asked me what it was. If she hadn't seen it, I'd have scared it off when i went inside. (I remember fondly those young eyes that could thread a needle like it was a rubber hose through a railroad tunnel) I still had to ease by it to get to my macro rig which had been sitting in cold storage all summer. These are the results. I think it's in the genus Efferia, but haven't run it through bugguide yet.
Aug 30, 2020 18:42:39 #
Cool! I would 'suggest' that this is in the genus Efferia, but its hard to be sure.
Aug 30, 2020 19:37:39 #
Aug 30, 2020 19:39:25 #
gym wrote:
Greetings to all my macro friends here on hedgehog... (show quote)
happy to have you posting again, other then a sudden phantom pain in my side😉, nice shooting
Aug 30, 2020 20:18:16 #
Aug 30, 2020 20:38:42 #
Aug 30, 2020 21:00:45 #
Since your camera is all charged up and all, maybe go out again soon for more pictures 🙂. Once the weather clears of course.
Aug 30, 2020 21:21:18 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Since your camera is all charged up and all, maybe go out again soon for more pictures 🙂. Once the weather clears of course.
I have my old 7D set up for macros, but it's been on the shelf for almost a year. I was surprised that the batteries in the flash were still good. :-) What complicated things was the humidity. When I took the camera outside, the humidity was so high that condensation appeared immediately on the lens. I had to wait about 5 minutes for it to clear. The first few shots were so hazy that you could barely see the insect. Luckily, the robber fly wasn't in a hurry and gave me another chance.
Aug 31, 2020 02:37:33 #
Aug 31, 2020 07:58:14 #
gym wrote:
I have my old 7D set up for macros, but it's been on the shelf for almost a year. I was surprised that the batteries in the flash were still good. :-) What complicated things was the humidity. When I took the camera outside, the humidity was so high that condensation appeared immediately on the lens. I had to wait about 5 minutes for it to clear. The first few shots were so hazy that you could barely see the insect. Luckily, the robber fly wasn't in a hurry and gave me another chance.
I did the same as you in keeping everything ready leaving batteries in two flash units all Winter. The batteries leaked in one unit. So now I don't leave the batteries in. I now use a ringlight and rechargeable batteries but I'll take the batteries out over the Winter months. All four batteries are in a holder that pops in and out so that's convenient.
Aug 31, 2020 09:59:35 #
gym wrote:
I have my old 7D set up for macros, but it's been on the shelf for almost a year. I was surprised that the batteries in the flash were still good. :-) What complicated things was the humidity. When I took the camera outside, the humidity was so high that condensation appeared immediately on the lens. I had to wait about 5 minutes for it to clear. The first few shots were so hazy that you could barely see the insect. Luckily, the robber fly wasn't in a hurry and gave me another chance.
nice to see you again Jim,nice shots.i can see it was a little cloudy around the edges.happens here all the time.
Aug 31, 2020 11:35:07 #
Yep. I knew the fly was not going to stay there forever, so I started taking pics before the lens was entirely clear. You know the drill: Get 'em while you can because there may not be a second chance. :-)
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