Taken with Lester A Dine with 64mm of tubes pics are full size not cropped except 1 of the lady bug pics.
Not so easy, is it? Because of such shallow DoF at high magnification, I have to rely on a tripod when using long tubes. Not as much fun as hand-held macro in the field.
This was about the best I can do hand held did not help that the wind was blowing.
Your Assassin Bug is in the genus Pselliopus, the Sycamore Assassin Bugs, which you can read about in
http://bugguide.net/node/view/3792 Nymphs of these species all look alike in this genus.
well done esp with the ext tubes on
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