Archive 2009 · Unknown Creature + 1

MarkB1
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #1 · Unknown Creature + 1

Recognise it? Found recently in an open field, bushside, clinging to a blade of dried grass. Only the one and have never seen it before.
http://abugseyeview.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/p1460974.jpg
http://abugseyeview.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/p1470009.jpg
http://abugseyeview.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/p1470025.jpg
This is the only one showing anything of the back and wings.
http://abugseyeview.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/p1460964.jpg

Mark

Edited on Nov 10, 2009 at 07:57 AM · View previous versions

Nov 10, 2009 at 04:58 AM

LordV
Offline
• • • • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #2 · Unknown Creature + 1

Lovely series of captures- Intereresting bug -first reaction was a beetle of some kind but can't make out whether it has complete wing covers on the back.
2nd guess would be a sawfly.
Brian v.

Nov 10, 2009 at 06:47 AM

michael kilner
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #3 · Unknown Creature + 1

great shots,like the light

Nov 10, 2009 at 07:26 AM

MarkB1
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #4 · Unknown Creature + 1

Thanks for comments guys.

Mark

Nov 10, 2009 at 07:59 AM

LordV
Offline
• • • • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #5 · Unknown Creature + 1

Lovely last shot- that rules out sawflies - must be a beetle or rove-beetle I think or perhaps a really weird weevil.
Brian v.

Nov 10, 2009 at 09:29 AM

MarkB1
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #6 · Unknown Creature + 1

LordV wrote:
Lovely last shot- that rules out sawflies - must be a beetle or rove-beetle I think or perhaps a really weird weevil.
Brian v.

Don't know, I thought the really weird weevil is yet to come.

Mark

Nov 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM

smccann
Offline
• •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #7 · Unknown Creature + 1

Looks much like a Meloid (Blister beetle), but I have never seen one with pectinate antennae.

Nov 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM

Kenj8246
Offline
• • • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #8 · Unknown Creature + 1

No idea what kinda critter that is, but these are all excellent exposures. Wonderful control of the light and very, very good detail. Nicely done, mate.

Kenny

Nov 10, 2009 at 11:16 AM

Patrick Coin
Offline
•
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #9 · Unknown Creature + 1

These are lovely shots of a wedge-shaped beetle, family Ripiphoridae. See, for instance, Wikipedia--Rhipiphoridae, or BugGuide (North American species). They have a (for beetles) unusual parasitic lifestyle and the adults are said to be short-lived, so not seen very frequently.

Nov 10, 2009 at 11:28 AM

Dalantech
Offline
• • • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #10 · Unknown Creature + 1

No ID Mark but I really like the photos!

Nov 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM

MarkB1
Offline
• • • • •
Upload & Sell: Off

p.1 #11 · Unknown Creature + 1

Thanks for comments and info guys. Appreciated.

Mark

Nov 10, 2009 at 07:14 PM


FM Forums \| Macro & Still Life \| Join Upload & Sell