Chasing Bugs

av98m

31 Aug 08, 09:04

This is going to be my insect porn thread from now.

This saturday's captures:

Crab Spider

Ordinarily I do not like pictures taken with electronic flash but it was the only way I could capture this tiny little bastard. It turned out ok. Crab spiders are poisonous as heck btw, so do not touch them if you see them!

Carpenter Bee

This huge guy is a carpenter bee(I think). I initially thought it was a bumble bee. In any case it was pretty scary getting close enough for this shot, given how noisy and fast it was moving.

av98m

31 Aug 08, 09:11

Not sure what this is yet

I still can't decide if I like this picture.

SevenEleven

31 Aug 08, 09:12

wow...they are beautiful. you risk your neck getting so close to shot them? macro?

av98m

31 Aug 08, 09:14

Originally posted by SevenEleven:

wow...they are beautiful. you risk your neck getting so close to shot them? macro?

Yeah. I remember wishing my camera had a longer lens

av98m

31 Aug 08, 09:16

Dragonfly

I wished the weather wasn't so sunny. A real pain trying to avoid casting a huge shadow over the subject.

SevenEleven

31 Aug 08, 09:17

all the timing seems perfect. where did you go to find so many critters among the beautiful flowers

av98m

31 Aug 08, 09:19

Originally posted by SevenEleven:

all the timing seems perfect. where did you go to find so many critters

Any garden will have them. These were taken in the botanic gardens but I've found plenty of interesting stuff just downstairs my house too.

cassie

1 Sep 08, 19:06

i like the crab spider! never seen it before!

hisoka

1 Sep 08, 19:08

so there are lots of crab spiders around our gardens? =?

av98m

1 Sep 08, 19:09

Originally posted by cassie:

i like the crab spider! never seen it before!

given that its likely very poisonous, that's a good thing

av98m

1 Sep 08, 19:10

Originally posted by hisoka:

so there are lots of crab spiders around our gardens? =?

Yeah. They're quite well hidden.

hisoka

1 Sep 08, 19:13

Originally posted by av98m:

Yeah. They're quite well hidden.

so scary!! are there lots of pple in sg getting killed by them =? must go and get excused outfield for reservice to prevent getting stung. =X

16/f/lonely

1 Sep 08, 19:14

Very nice.....mine are mediocre.

There was a time I tried to take a picture of a colony of weaver ants and the buggers jumped onto the camera.

After that I always have apprehensions taking pictures of ants.

av98m

1 Sep 08, 19:15

Originally posted by hisoka:

so scary!! are there lots of pple in sg getting killed by them =? must go and get excused outfield for reservice to prevent getting stung. =X

nonsense lah. these spiders prefer eating insects and they're really more scared of us than the other way round.

av98m

1 Sep 08, 19:16

Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:

Very nice.....mine are mediocre.

There was a time I tried to take a picture of a colony of weaver ants and the buggers jumped onto the camera.

After that I always have apprehensions taking pictures of ants.

you should have seen the first time a bee landed on my forearm when I was trying to take pics of them long time ago. I squealed like a little girl.

hisoka

1 Sep 08, 19:18

sounds like a dangerous hobby? ant flying at you and bees going for your extremities.

so got step/ lie down on a bed of red army ants or been stung by something poisonous?

16/f/lonely

1 Sep 08, 19:21

Originally posted by av98m:

you should have seen the first time a bee landed on my forearm when I was trying to take pics of them long time ago. I squealed like a little girl.

You should try having ants trying to bite the lens with more jumping off their nests to get at you.

Failing which, they started running to my feet.

I stopped taking pictures of weaver ants after that first try.

Now I only dare to take pictures of ants that are relatively blind.

But weaver ants are cute in their way, rather bold and curious, with remarkably good eye-sight.

av98m

1 Sep 08, 19:47

Originally posted by hisoka:

sounds like a dangerous hobby? ant flying at you and bees going for your extremities.

so got step/ lie down on a bed of red army ants or been stung by something poisonous?

I ever took cover on top of an ant nest in the army. You should have seen me leap 6 feet into the air screaming

av98m

1 Sep 08, 22:02

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kiseki

1 Sep 08, 22:05