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Unicorn Caterpillar

tinusbum wrote:

Schizura unicornis
another one i look for every year at this time

Striking.
All of the adults in this genus are among the most uninteresting moths. Drab, mousey, unkempt, generally down right homely.
Bill

May 3, 2019 10:55:32 #

Black & Orange Moth

Screamin Scott wrote:

I only managed to get two images of this image of this moth before it flew off. Am I correct in assuming its a Species Cisseps fulvicollis - Yellow-collared Scape Moth - Hodges# 8267?

I second Grape Skeletonizer. And add a male.
Scape moths are also a bit later in year, I believe.
My ID using Charles Covell, Jr.
Pretty little moth.
Bill

(Main Photography Discussion)

May 2, 2019 12:04:48 #

Headline ! Camera sales plummet !

siamesecatmanuk wrote:

I,m sure you have all read the headlines that camera sales are dropping and phone cameras are booming,it will be nice that the phone owners can snatch that photo that otherwise would have been missed and sure they can blur backgrounds and give portrait like results etc,but my DSLR and more recently my coolpix p7000 won't be being replaced by a phone camera any time soon.
Are you hanging up your DSLR,s members ?
Graham

With me a camera(read canon) is like American Express, I never leave home without one.
I do take photos with my cell, too.
A photo is a photo. Quality varies with need.
Much Ado About Nothing?
Check Used camera sales. I wonder how they do. Cameras are getting like cars, new one whether you need it or not.
Blll

May 2, 2019 11:54:06 #

Large Bee in Welsh Bathroom

This is an European hornet. Many other common names.
Vespa crabo is the scientific name. The states has had them since 1800's. An import. A pest, sting like hell, and aggressive and protective at food or nest.
The nest is the typical paper nest, covered in in open and globular in shape, dingy gray. Also enters houses, uses dry tree holes, etc.
Yours probably a queen. Good. No nest from her.
Google for more.

Apr 30, 2019 18:20:52 #

i have babies

napabob wrote:

awwwww, ain't they the cutest, mom? looks relieved.......and fabulous !

Now you need a small jumping spider.😀
Bill

Apr 30, 2019 18:16:50 #

True Bug...Unknown Bug...Flower Blossom

sippyjug104 wrote:

While walking the yard yesterday I discovered seve... (show quote)

I believe the family Lagaèidae is a fit. Next two steps,? Tho I might suggest a Lárgus sp.
Bill

Apr 30, 2019 18:04:13 #

First yard weed bloom

Blenheim Orange wrote:

Thanks everyone.

Mike

How do you spell beautiful?
A mono culture yard( read grass) is unhealthy. No biodiversity. A good read, by the way. EO Wilson.
A weed is an unwanted plant. You want poison ivy, then it is not a weed.
Amazing as to the minute sameness. Can you make a butterfly? Only Mother Nature.
By the time I started kneeling and looking close it was hard to kneel. Ooh well.
Glad to see interest in this vein.
Bill

Apr 29, 2019 09:53:16 #

sippyjug104 wrote:

Great series, Bill. The detail of your fingerprint is quite amazing as well as the detailed structure of the mushroom. It's good to see that you are getting out and about with your camera in hand and I look forward to seeing your future posts.

Ipomea( that is good morning in flower speak). Ipomea are "Morning glories".
Bill

Apr 29, 2019 09:14:47 #

Sorry to admit this. It was a GAS attack. A look at what I had to do the same with gear I had prompted it's sale. The buyer is here on macro frequently. So we will see it put to use.
I have a 1000d, a 5D and a T2I. Maybe a camera upgrade?😀📸
Thanks, Brenda.(we have bluebells in Maryland. Named Virginia Bluebells.
Bill

Apr 28, 2019 19:01:11 #

ensign wasp

tinusbum wrote:

longhorn beetle and a couple moths

I hope some others weigh in on the beetle.
A longhorn, Cerambicid.
It is odd, I cannot ID it. It looks, body wise like Chalcophora, or Buprestis in the family Buprestidae. Not at all like most longhorns. All else points at longhorn. Well done.
Bill

Apr 28, 2019 15:13:05 #

First Focus Stack

skylane5sp wrote:

Playing around with Zerene for the first time this morning. This was 20 frames of a recently dead critter I found in a window channel. How'd I do?

Is this a stinkbug? It looks a lot like the one Sippyjug just posted.

How does one identify these critters?

I posted earlier, thought this sampling of some dicotomous keys Weevils and some microlepidoptera might interest you.
Hope this doesn't cause any bad dreams or flashbacks.
Bill

Micro Lep

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Apr 28, 2019 14:57:16 #

Meant to ID.
Dog tooth violet, AKA trout Lily and adder's toungue. A true Lily family. Mushroom is Dryad Saddle, a polypore, tasty if cooked correctly.
Spring advances quickly, now.
Bill

Apr 28, 2019 14:51:07 #

(Photo Gallery)

What Am I?

BBurns wrote:

It is one of many species of Hoverflies in California. All of them beneficial as their Larvae devour aphids.
Syrphidae

The larva live in tree holes of water in some genus. Called rattail maggots
Bill

Apr 28, 2019 14:48:07 #

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What Am I?

robertjerl wrote:

Besides being only 1/4" long.

7DII, 100-400L mk2 + 1.4xIII @ 560*, 1/400 @ f/8.0, ISO 1000

*exif says 401 mm, I think the contacts need cleaning or something

Hover fly, Yellow jacket fly, Flower fly. All the same family, Syrphidae.
Spilomyia genus and Milesia genus have species that look similar.
The largest US wasp is this cicada killer. One of the largest wasps in the world. At 89mm, or 3-1/2 inches, a wasp that large lacks credibility.
A fisherman's tale?
Beyond me.
Bill

Apr 28, 2019 13:47:23 #

With a lens that was a 28mm that is permanently reversed,and no stop adjustment. My left index finger print, a favorite of Gary beetle. And non macro of Patapsco State Park last week or so. Woodland flowers abloom.
Hope everyone enjoying spring.
Bill up

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DOF very close, got horn tip, it seems

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The river runs thru the Patapsco valley

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