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I had been trying to catch up with an elusive wasp when I saw a tiny brown Bush Cricket nymph (about the size of my smallest fingernail). I found this to be elusive to but it finally reached a place where it tolerated my presence. It was on the leaf of some coarse, self-sown wild grass. There were many tiers of overlapping, almost horizontal, tips of leaves, which tended to block my line of sight. However, these provided me with a rare image opportunity.
When I had taken a few shots, the nymph moved slowly on, along a leaf. When it stopped I started framing it and noticed what I thought was a tiny bug (Hemiptera) with exceptionally long antennae. I took some shots of the “bug” and some with it in the frame with the hopper. I have seen parasitic wasps hunting their host insects on foliage and the movement here looked like that. I took pictures with the suspected wasp in them only to take a look later to identify it.
Only when I took close-ups of the “bug” did I see its orthopteran morphology.
The characteristic shape and two-tone colouring led me to the Conehead pages of my insect guide book. I had seen adults of the Short-winged Conehead for the first time, about 100 feet away from where I found the nymph, in August last year. It is good to know that they are breeding and becoming established.
https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1557705/0
https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1560200/#14582511
Olympus EM-1 (aperture priority), Olympus 4/3 x2 TC, Olympus 4/3 50mm f2 macro, f9 shutter around 1/100 sec, hand-held.
The stereos are crosseye.
The first image is a bit soft but the stereo is OK.
Harold
Harold Gough 2019
Harold Gough 2019
Harold Gough 2019
Harold Gough 2019
Harold Gough 2019
Harold Gough 2019
Harold Gough 2019
Harold Gough 2019
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