Posts for: newtoyou
Dec 16, 2018 17:41:32 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Mark suggested that ventral view of this insect would show its primitive legs and other appendages better so here's my attempt to do so. It's very small so I had a difficult time getting it into position. The yellowish background is the dab of putty that I put on to the staging platform and stick the pin into. The putty gives me something that I can mush on one way or another to get the best view of the subject through the lens.
To reenforce Mark's information, the mint doctor has weighed in.😀
Bill
Dec 16, 2018 17:36:46 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
While hunting for insects in the woods today I found a tiny empty snail shell which is 3/8-inch in diameter. It's unfortunate that it was empty but I thought that it would make a nice subject at a magnified view so here it is. I was also fortunate to find two large black beetles that are chilling right now for their photo debut later today.
Before I see them. Alobates pennsylvanicus is my 'guess'.If not, one of the carabids.
Bill
Dec 16, 2018 15:05:41 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Oh I know exactly what this is. But it has already... (show quote)
Somewhat Langousta/lobster-like.
Bill
Dec 15, 2018 23:30:59 #
This photo has enough depth and clearity to make me think an ID of some rather small insects is possible via a photo.
This insect would probably not be pinned for study. Preserved wet, mounted on a microscope slide. The info I more or less quote is from 1976 or earlier. Methods still do not change much. I suggest getting a couple of cheap aluminum roasting pans. Line with your blank newspaper. Collect a fair amount of moist leaf litter in a BLACK plastic garbage bag. Get your camera ready. Also get a small soft artist brush and a bowl of alcohol. A small watt regular bulb(for heat) and desk lamp is aimed at a handful or two of litter at one end. Now watch the exodus begin.
Keep the bag in a chilly place and do this whenever. Collect at leasure. This a modification of the Berleize funnel. More selective. Put leaf litter back when done.
You might even put tin can pit traps under logs. Check regularly.
Mark is right on about winter activity. If anyone bet me I could not find insects 365 days a year, they would lose.
Also, try mounting differently, more to suit your needs. Try the finest pin inserted analy(anyone wince?) and the pinhead in clay. Also two pins up thru bottom, but not thru specimen and heads in a ball of clay. Experiment.
Your photography is superlative. Once you refine mounting techniques you will be a tough act to follow.
Bill
This insect would probably not be pinned for study. Preserved wet, mounted on a microscope slide. The info I more or less quote is from 1976 or earlier. Methods still do not change much. I suggest getting a couple of cheap aluminum roasting pans. Line with your blank newspaper. Collect a fair amount of moist leaf litter in a BLACK plastic garbage bag. Get your camera ready. Also get a small soft artist brush and a bowl of alcohol. A small watt regular bulb(for heat) and desk lamp is aimed at a handful or two of litter at one end. Now watch the exodus begin.
Keep the bag in a chilly place and do this whenever. Collect at leasure. This a modification of the Berleize funnel. More selective. Put leaf litter back when done.
You might even put tin can pit traps under logs. Check regularly.
Mark is right on about winter activity. If anyone bet me I could not find insects 365 days a year, they would lose.
Also, try mounting differently, more to suit your needs. Try the finest pin inserted analy(anyone wince?) and the pinhead in clay. Also two pins up thru bottom, but not thru specimen and heads in a ball of clay. Experiment.
Your photography is superlative. Once you refine mounting techniques you will be a tough act to follow.
Bill
Dec 15, 2018 21:42:11 #
tinusbum wrote:
thats what i was going to say. nice shots! dec 12th
There goes my sense of time
Dec 15, 2018 20:39:51 #
See Tinusbum post of 7Dec. Looks to be same.
Bill
Bill
Dec 15, 2018 03:38:13 #
tinusbum wrote:
from 2 days ago
See your post of 20Sept2012, page 423. The wasp may be a male Pelecinus polyturator. q.v. They are very rare, most females gravid from parthenogeny, so males not needed.
Bill
Dec 15, 2018 02:04:50 #
Quite nice.
FYI the weevil may be Sitona flavicens.
The skink. Aah, the skink. Love to find one. It is Eumeces obsoletus. Up to thirteen inches. I had an eleven inch male broadheaded skink,E. laticeps.
Bill
FYI the weevil may be Sitona flavicens.
The skink. Aah, the skink. Love to find one. It is Eumeces obsoletus. Up to thirteen inches. I had an eleven inch male broadheaded skink,E. laticeps.
Bill
Dec 14, 2018 22:36:10 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
👍 It does look like there is a light leak or internal reflections. Either one can be helped by flocking the insides of the tubes.
And, is that in all, or just the higher magnification?. I see the lightening, thought it was my light system.
Like Gary, I am still feeling my way.
Bill
Dec 14, 2018 22:30:12 #
Darren01 wrote:
If it looks good, Eat it...! LOL Sketch is ok, photo worth a ton ..
The meaning of that escapes me. Sorry.
Bill
Dec 14, 2018 22:26:17 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
👍 It does look like there is a light leak or internal reflections. Either one can be helped by flocking the insides of the tubes.
Ah- ha. How about a tube, cut to length, of flat black art paper? Do not want to alter tubes.
Bill
Dec 14, 2018 20:26:00 #
Using a LED flash with a fixed on, I put tubes, three steps, up to 112mm. So , fixed light, canon T2l and 40mm x 1.28 lens plus tubes. Thanks for looking.
Bill
Bill
Dec 14, 2018 19:53:09 #
tinusbum wrote:
thanks but i thought coneheads were kadydids
Technically they are. Different sub-family. So Neoconocephalus gets a different common name. So, all coneheads are katydids, but not all katydids are coneheads.
Bill
Dec 14, 2018 15:38:21 #
Dikdik wrote:
You missed a fascinating critter... bats. We used to have a couple of pet brown bats. At the time we were living in Toronto and the ROM had a world expert on the little critters.
Dik
Dik
Closest to that I have been was a pet flying squirrel I rescued in winter. It lived in a closet,and would come out and take peanuts from us in the evening. Surprised friends.Kept till warm weather and released.
Bill
Dec 14, 2018 14:34:12 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
I'm continuing my lighting experiments and I think... (show quote)
I am taking notes. Your methods pay off and will be put to good use. This avocation(almost said hobby) does not have to be expensive.
The spider looks near ready to shed. Probably the alcohol bath.
Bill