Insect photos with IDs

Taki London said:

Leptopterna dolobrata.

Meadow plant bug.

Lovely.

Taki London said:

Cantharis fusca. 

Soldier beetle.

Wonderful photos.

I hope you share more.

Lets get this thread going. I have a lot of insect photos I would like to share.  Mainly because nobody else wants to see them.

Large aperture (small f number) is less depth of field.  So is long focal length lens. Less depth of field gives a great blurry background.  But remember when you take close-up or macro photos in insects you need a large depth of field. I take at least f11 and need to watch out for shutter speed and ISO 

This is Leptopterna dolobrata.  Again, largely ignored by the general public

I posted this on another thread, but is appropriate here.  A photo of Cantharis fusca.  Very common but most people (especially NT) ignore them

garden tiger moth and it's very fluffy 

Lime hawk moth who I found on the wheel of my bin.

Wonderful detail.

Just bumping this old thread of mine in case anyone (Hergé ) is interested.

SpikeyMark said:

Do you have a proper camera, Debbie? Y

I've got 3 cameras.

I've got an entry level DSLR which I hardly ever use due to hand shake.

I've got a bridge camera Panasonic FZ2000 which has had the most use outdoors for wildlife, and I love it, but don't tend to take photos of wildlife nowadays because I've lost the incentive.

I used to upload to Shutterstock but the prices dropped to next to nothing and now AI is taking over big time.

The one I used for the most recent colour dragonfly is a pocket camera made by Panasonic - TZ200.

Sadly, I've read that Panasonic are no longer making the pocket cameras due to phone cameras.

SpikeyMark said:

I managed to save it.

Wonderful detail.

You are a bee rescuing angel.

Bees need more people like you.

Number said:

Fantastic photo.

Many thank yous

I love these photos. Do you have a proper camera, Debbie? You get the nice blurred background which is hard to get with a phone.

I have posted this bee before, but from much further away. I managed to save it.

Fantastic photo.

This dragonfly was in our garden recently.

He's smiling.

That looks fun! I remember finding a caterpillar as a kid and keeping it and it turned into a chrysalis. I checked it all the time, but still missed it coming out ad flying away. Now I know that I should have had it in a net.

These kits are wonderful.

I've released quite a few butterflies over the years.

You can get them on Amazon.

https://www.insectlore.co.uk/butterfly-garden-with-3-5-live-caterpillars.html?srsltid=AfmBOopzcBFNPmNt4cn9k_YdqPmT7CYj0kJ_2m1gcJKwZqcDvxjhGTvv