Post your BUG pictures

[Archibald]

Post your macro photos of insects and similar small joint-legged creatures like spiders. Discussion of techniques is encouraged!

Here is a leafhopper. Shot with the 100mm L macro lens and diffused flash.

 

[Archibald]

Honeybee, taken by natural light in September here in Ottawa.

 

[Michael456]

An actual bug. Taken with the MP-E 65mm + extender (I think it was the 2x extender - for some reason extenders used with the MP-E don't show up in the EXIF):

 

[Michael456]

An ant tending aphids. This was shot with the MP-E 65mm + 2x extender. Magnification was about 8x. Ants are the hardest thing to shoot I've encountered so far.

 

[Archibald]

Very nice shots, Michael. Yes, ants are so mobile, and usually very small.

 

[fotoi]

Canon EOS M100 * Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM * 1/13 sec * f/8 * ISO 100

 

[Ecc233]

Smugmug problems ... it keeps doing this when I try to embed BBCode using insert link for some reason. Whatever, this is a genuine bug (hemiptera), the alder spittle bug, Aphrophora alni.

 

[JohnBdigital]

Just a house fly...

 

[Archibald]

A fly with a pointy nose - seems to be Nemotelus kansensis. Taken in Hamilton, Ontario.

 

[Archibald]

Japanese Beetle.

 

[Michael456]

Ladybug on a flower:

 

[Archibald]

Honeybee, taken with the 100-500mm L lens. This is a fairly heavy crop, and shows what a remarkable lens it is.

 

[Archibald]

A fly with red eyes. Canon RF 100mm L, diffused flash.

 

[Michael456]

Flies.

 

[Archibald]

Flies.

View attachment 1718

View attachment 1719

Wow, amazingly close.

 

[Archibald]

Ebony Jewelwing damselfly, female.



Taken with the 100-500mm L and natural light.

 

[ncsa]

Yellow by Neil, on Flickr

 

[Lester Wareham]

Wasp Beetle MP-E plus twin flash

insect Wasp Beetle A02_001-04_12-05-19 by Lester W, on Flickr

insec 7DI Wasp Beetle A10_001-05_15-05-16 by Lester W, on Flickr

 

[Lester Wareham]

Longhorn Beetle (Agapanthia villosoviridescens)

insec Long H Beetle A1B_002-10_28-05-17 by Lester W, on Flickr

 

[Lester Wareham]

Green Tiger, MP-E, ntural light, handheld

insec 6D tiger beetle K_001-07_12-04-14 by Lester W, on Flickr


insec 6D tiger beetle M_001-03_12-04-14 by Lester W, on Flickr