Posts for: newtoyou
Nov 25, 2018 23:07:43 #
Navywife66 wrote:
Hi, have you found this lens yet? I have one for sale. I am switching formats to FF and cannot use it. It's in perfect condition.
Still have it? Price, please. Bill
Nov 25, 2018 23:03:07 #
Go back, quote reply your post. Follow prompts. Need photos accessible on iPad, computer, or other. Luck be with you. I, too, am interested.
Bill
Bill
Nov 25, 2018 19:17:13 #
napabob wrote:
HA................groan
Had to revisit my post to see why the groan. That was a Russel Crow line in Master and Commander( two thumbs up movie). Thanks for the groan.
Bill
Nov 25, 2018 09:20:56 #
rwilson1942 wrote:
to me.
A correct ID by tinusbum. They are a Caribbean import. First showed up in Houston area in 09. They vary a good deal in color. To add to what Mark said, there are 1218 different weevils(OK, 1219) in Texas. Beats out Alaska. Weevils may be the largest family, with some entomologists saying maybe half of all beetles are weevils. They can be collected by finding nuts, acorns, seeds,and litter. Keep cool thru winter. Adults emerge in spring. I use pint Mason jars with a piece of cloth under rims for air. This also works for many other insects. Large black plastic bags with a jar attached to catch emerging specimens also work well. Keep in a garage or basement, or outside in a plastic garbage can. Remember that when you find two weevils of the same species to keep the smaller one. I found it better to accept the lesser of two weevils.
Have a good day, all.
Bill
Nov 21, 2018 22:49:19 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Not a critter in site and I'm getting cabin fever ... (show quote)
At max, what you shot is ten mm front to back. That means one mm is five wee turns. The fact that you used continuous light is a surprise. The Lens must be fairly fast. Very nice. I will be using posed dead specimens, so no movement problems. Crickets do well when cooled. The ones that die(probably half) can be frozen and thawed for posing. How many others have persued this line of thinking for macro. I for one am interested.
Night all
Bill
Nov 20, 2018 08:54:05 #
Navywife66 wrote:
Yeah it is a nice vintage strap but I have not used. It is a collectors one for sure for the right person. I have seen them on other sites for more and though wow! But its fair priced and equals what is on Ebay pretty much.
I shoot two AE1P canon. One b/w, one colour. No other straps look right. Or feel right.
Thanks for the rsvp. Enjoy your day.
Bill
Nov 19, 2018 22:22:57 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
I always see wasps looking for prey when I'm out looking for subjects. I have also found lots of caterpillars outside of what I had always assumed was a Carpenter bee's nest in my fence. Maybe it was a wasp nest, although I normally see them elsewhere depending on species...
Carpenter bees, at least the large, common one, chew 10-12mm holes in wood. These are provisioned.with pollen and a crude honey. I believe bees in general are vegetarian, while wasps have many lifestyles, the are mostly carnivores. Paper wasps in particular. When you see paper wasps on wood, they are probably collecting nest material. In your garden, leave them be. As Mark said, they exert pressure on other insects. They love caterpillars, cabbage butterfly and cutworms. Yummy.
Bill
Nov 18, 2018 12:04:14 #
I do not want to buy, just say Thank You. I have a number of this style straps. I use them on my film cameras. I have one of the Epcot ones. Wow, didn't know they were so pricey.
Bill.
Bill.
Nov 18, 2018 11:54:56 #
Nov 18, 2018 11:41:08 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
I don't know. Maybe a bit of both? According to photos and some descriptions I have regarding spider hosts, mantidflies lays their eggs in the habitats where their hosts are found, but the larvae must wander to find a host. I could see where an adult mantidfly would benefit from being a mimic when lurking around a nesting area, but would especially benefit when making a get-away as a new adult.
To go a bit further. Mantispids share a development, hypermetamorphosis, with beetles in the family Meloidae and Rhipiphoridae. The triungulin is long legged and active. When a host is found, it feeds, then sheds into a 'fatter' triungulin. Then it settles in and eats the host. The next sheds prodoce a more scarabaeiform larva, until pupation. Convergent evolution at work. Paper wasps are vicious predators. I put outside about twenty imperial moth larva, second stage, on gum branches. Went inside, five minutes later saw the last two get grabbed and masticated in seconds. Makes lions iook like slackers.
Thanks, Mark.
Bill
Nov 18, 2018 09:42:18 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
The man I was corresponding with was working on a paper about these. I saw some of the information before presentation, but have lost it, along with his name. I supplied specimens and field information to a number of doctoral students. Never met most of them. Hope it helped them. It helped me.That is interesting! There was a paper out a coupl... (show quote)
Enjoy your day. PS, could the mimicry protect them when they are emerging??? Or laying eggs???
Nov 18, 2018 08:59:24 #
In early 80s I corresponded with a specialist of these. I found about a dozen over two weeks. According to him the wasp mimic is parasitic on paperwasps also, not just spiders. There was a large polistes nest under my porch overhang. They are fun to cage and feed fruit flies, will snag them out of the air. Nicely shot.
Nov 17, 2018 23:52:10 #
napabob wrote:
AND after looking at all again, noticed for the first time the lacewing larva has ball like appendages with hair coming out of them
That is rarely seen. They are sticky, so trash, pollen and depleted victims usually cover them. This one may be recently shed.
Bill
Nov 17, 2018 23:41:49 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Interesting stuff! I like symbiotic relationships.
I, too, like symbiotic relationships. Unfortunately, most of mine were only an hour or two long.
Bill
Nov 17, 2018 21:45:08 #
And a fungal organism on the dead plant. Ahh, the logic. Our house plants came in, along with an assortment of 'bugs', for the winter. Collecting good. Spiders a-plenty.