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Nice set of pictures. I'm glad somebody still has bugs to shoot. Ours are pretty well gone for the winter.
Each of these are quite nice. I especially like the near-transparent woodlouse.
boomboom wrote:
Nice set of pictures. I'm glad somebody still has bugs to shoot. Ours are pretty well gone for the winter.
It has been getting harder and harder to find a subject with the cold weather setting in. Most of the spiders were from inside my house. I have to pace myself so I something for nextime.
Nikonian72 wrote:
Each of these are quite nice. I especially like the near-transparent woodlouse.
Thanks for the encouragement. The wood louse was so different from the common ones I normaly see. I thought it was albino.
clicktime wrote:
The wood louse was so different from the common ones I normally see. I thought it was albino.
Could be! I can see louse innards.
Very nice set clicktime! Thanks for sharing!
Do you know whether #1 is Eupeodes sp. ? Very nice shot.
Richard
clicktime wrote:
Nikonian72 wrote:
Each of these are quite nice. I especially like the near-transparent woodlouse.
Thanks for the encouragement. The wood louse was so different from the common ones I normaly see. I thought it was albino.
These arthropods mould (shed their old exoskeleton) and before the new one hardens and darkens it is often white or clear and soft, not albino.
Someone called me years ago and had a "albino" cockroach and wanted to known if it was worth anything, in a few hrs it was dark. Not an albino. Albinos in nature usually don't last long as they do not blend in with their surroundings.
If you find an arthropod that you think is an albino keep it and see if it turns dark, if it doesn't it is an albino.
rhadams824 wrote:
These arthropods mould (shed their old exoskeleton) and before the new one hardens and darkens it is often white or clear and soft, not albino.
Hey, Prof,
You can be such a killjoy! We were already dialing Guinness.
<Bazinga!>
and thanks.
I learn somthing every day on this site. Thanks for the info rhadams824.
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