sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a focused stacked image of a green stink bug that has been in my collection for over two years now and appears to be holding up well.
This session was taken with a 50mm f/2.8 Schneider-Kreuznach enlarger lens mounted on bellows with constant LED soft-panel illumination. There were 137 images taken in the stack which were processed in Zerene Stacker to produce the final image posted.
The green stinkbug is considered to be a destructive pest because it has a broad range of plants that it feeds on. They can often be found sucking away on black cherry and elderberry, flowering dogwood, evergreen blackberry, basswood, and pine trees. They also attack a large number of important economic crops, including apples, apricots, asparagus, beans, cherries, corn, cotton, eggplant, peach, pear, peas, soybean, tobacco, and tomato. Stinkbugs account for millions of dollars in economic food crop losses across the country.
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