sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

There is an old saying that goes, "It's not the heat...it's the humidity!" and in fact that's true. Our current weather conditions are 88-deg. F with 58% relative humidity which equates to 53.7 Btuh/lb. of air. In comparison for example in Phoenix, AZ it is 99-deg. F with 8% relative humidity which equates to 27.3 Btuh/lb. of air. That's 26.4 Btuh/lb. of air difference in total heat content of the air.

To put this in layman terms, I'm sweating like the dickens when I go outside! This is because the heat of my body must push against the heat of the air around me as my body tries to cool itself via convection, radiation and evaporation.

Okay, enough of the thermal science lesson for the day. I was able to find three cooperative subjects in the short time that I was out. One is a highly invasive Japanese Beetle eating machine, a highly invasive Asian Brown Marmorated Stinkbug, and two ever so tiny "I don't know what the heck they are" at three o'clock and six o'clock on the clover.

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kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

It's the same or worse here, sippy. I feel your pain. The bugs don't seem to mind. The plants are wilting, though.

ejones0310 Loc: Tulsa, OK

Yep, Oklahoma and Missouri have the same summer climate. About August the humidity should drop off, but then the temp will be 15°F higher.

Great shots, and I am again amazed at your knowledge of the insect kingdom.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Thanks, Kpmac. I hope to go to the park early tomorrow morning to an area which is one of my favorite scouting areas back in the wild thickets. If I can get to them before they warm up my chances will be far better. I just have to spray down for the skeeters and chiggers. By the way, don't get the "bug off" spray on any of your gear for it makes a very good solvent.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

I've been in Stillwater, OK on a construction job in mid summer a few years back and it is BLAZING HOT. Making it worse is that the red clay dust kicked up from excavation work sticks to everything...including a sweaty body. Car wash business must be booming down there.

ejones0310 Loc: Tulsa, OK

We don’t have there’d dirt in Tulsa. We have that black sticky stuff. I have no idea what you call it, but you dig a hole and in a few minutes your shovel weighs 20 pounds. I hate it.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

Nice Sippy. Did you capture that little on for a focus stack?

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Curmudgeon, No..these are single shot macro images. I have several macro lenses and this one is a vintage Lester A. Dine 105mm f/2.8 that was marketed for dental photography using a Nikon F film camera. The markings on the lens are listed in areas of teeth that the dentist may be taking.

The lens does not communicate with the camera so it is fully manually operated.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Very good set. I think Thrips on the flower.
I've fairly given up trying to avoid getting bug repellent on my cameras. I'm afraid I've been too careless on that detail for that to matter any more. The deterioration from DEET, heat, and constant handling has especially made my oldest camera not re-sellable.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Thanks Mark. I did not notice the micro small critters until I viewed them on the PC.