Todays Bugs at Astley Park

[Ryewolf]

The first is a Common Green Capsid - Lygocoris pabulinus

A Bee in the walled garden

A Greenbottle drinking nectar...

A wasp? It could be a bee they both have the simple eye between the two main eyes...

[Clicker]

What a crackin’ Set Rye .... was Korks with when you took these as it looked like you two were meeting up .?.. I bet he was a dab hand with a machete ,,, hacking a path through the undergrowth for you to find these beasts ...  love that greenbottle  pic ... fantastic iridescent colouring ...

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Clicker. Yes Korky was with me, we did have a bit of a meet up, he had a go with my macro setup - he's now resting as with camera, tube, lens and ring flash it can get a bit weighty. No need for hacking a path, you just look for the native plants and the bugs are usually there - photographing them is a different matter - as Korky found out today. You also need to keep your eyes open, like FUJI with his street photography in Stratford. So I was going , ohh look there's one, that's another, look a scorpion fly, a hoverfly, a capsid bug.....

[Korky]

The greenbottle really is superb - you gave the impression of not having much success and then you go and turn out a set like this. Git!

I had a great afternoon watching one of TIPF's macro masters.

Korky

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Korky, I did say bug hunting is a bit hit and miss and you never know what you've got till you get home and view on a big screen. Plus 4 out of 40 images is pretty low, I'd normally expect to get at least 8-12.

What Korky isn't saying is that he produced one of the best deliberate camera movement shots I've seen - and his initial thought was to delete - and he kept that hidden....

[Korky]

Showed this set to the friends we've been walking with today - they think you're a genius.

Yup, that's what they said and I was too much of a gentleman to shatter any illusions!

Korky 

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Korky.

[CanonChrissy]

Great set of images, excellent

[Barbara]

Great set. Wish I was a bit faster, these days by the time I have focused the little buggers are gone

 

[Guest]

Nice set Rye.  All beautifully sharp where it counts.

[Ryewolf]

Thanks Chrissy, Barbara and John.

1 hour ago, Barbara said:

by the time I have focused the little buggers are gone

It happens to me all the time, there were a couple of interesting flying things that I saw but wasn't quick enough.