The Bug Thread

  • LenH
    Wisconsin
    Posts: 2385
    September 13, 2011 at 3:34 pm #1273766

    Let us see your photos of BUGS?







    Czech
    Cottage Grove, MN
    Posts: 1574
    September 13, 2011 at 4:08 pm #994533

    Quote:

    SWEET BRET!

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5623
    September 13, 2011 at 4:34 pm #994543

    Len,

    I have a Canon SD450 digital camera and I’ve tried to take closeups like that without much success. Any suggestions on lighting, flash, zoom, whatever? Do you use a tripod? I keep getting the “you’re hands are shaking too much” warning from my camera which either means a tipod or less coffee…

    Thanks!

    Rootski

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    September 13, 2011 at 4:39 pm #994545

    Rootski,

    Use the macro setting, no flash (the camera probably won’t even let you use a flash with the macro on), no zoom, and a tripod. The tripod really helps, especially if the lighting isn’t great or if your hands aren’t super steady.

    I’ll have to dig through my hard drive at home. I have some neat bug shots somewhere.

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5623
    September 13, 2011 at 4:46 pm #994548

    Thanks Ralphie. I want to take pictures of some of the Atlantic Salmon flies I’ve been tying. Fake bugs, same problem.

    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    September 13, 2011 at 4:58 pm #994556

    Quote:

    Fake bugs, same problem.


    Yeah, but at least you don’t have to worry about them moving!

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    September 13, 2011 at 5:05 pm #994560

    I should have a few at home. I might even have to click the “watch this thread” button on this one.

    There is one very cool bug that I will have to show. I am going to guess no one here has seen them, even though they exist in Minnesota/Wisconsin.

    They used to appear every year, but I must have missed them this year. Stay tuned.

    Ralph speaks the truth. Even low end digital cameras take awesome close ups of small things in macro mode. I have a camera that is probably over 6 years old that runs on AA batteries that even takes incredible close ups. Even better than my better, newer camera.

    barc
    SE MN
    Posts: 192
    September 13, 2011 at 7:36 pm #994607

    I’ve seen the orange/black ones on the milkweed plants this summer. Anyone know what they are? I thought only the monarch larvae would chow on milkweed.
    barc

    carroll58
    Twin Cities, USA
    Posts: 2094
    September 13, 2011 at 9:01 pm #994627

    Quote:


    LMAO

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    September 14, 2011 at 12:52 am #994661

    I think I IDed Sweet’s caterpillar.

    Sphinx Moth

    He will have to verify that is it. Hard to tell from his picture.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    September 14, 2011 at 12:53 am #994663

    Well, I have a whole bunch to show if people are interested. I think I will do one or 2 a day. I’ll start out with the one I teased about earlier. Anyone want to guess the name?

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    September 14, 2011 at 1:33 am #994671

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    September 14, 2011 at 2:15 am #994691

    I have hands as soft as a women. I mean, as smooth as a baby’s butt. Ugh! As soft and smooth as a plump flatheads belly.

    whiskeyandwater
    ????
    Posts: 2014
    September 14, 2011 at 1:07 pm #994760

    Quote:

    I think I IDed Sweet’s caterpillar.

    Sphinx Moth

    He will have to verify that is it. Hard to tell from his picture.

    Yup thats the one. THanks Pug I hadn’t gotten around to looking it up yet.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    September 14, 2011 at 2:05 pm #994768

    In my investigating, I did come across a moth caterpillar that also eats milkweed, for whoever was wondering.

    I think I have seen those Sphinx moths before. Very cool looking.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    September 15, 2011 at 12:53 pm #994986

    Wish the quality was better, but I believe I used the phone for this photo.

    I give you, Moth with a Mohawk.

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5623
    September 17, 2011 at 10:19 pm #995478

    Here’s my attempt at some closeup shots. These are Salmon and Steelhead flies I tied.

    Rootski



    mossydan
    Cedar Rapids, Iowa
    Posts: 7727
    September 17, 2011 at 11:04 pm #995485

    Hey Pug, the first one is a pink hula skirt fly and the last two are a goose down cotton moth, I’m hopeing I’m close.

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    September 22, 2011 at 12:28 am #996471

    Making cider for the long winter ahead!

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    September 22, 2011 at 12:35 am #996473

    Only Stuart would take a photo of a bunch of bee butts.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    September 22, 2011 at 2:34 pm #996602

    Whoops, I kind of forgot about this thread. I’ll have to get more pictures up.

    Looking at the apple, it reminded me of a few weeks back fishing raspberry island in St Paul. There were some cool looking wasps collecting water or sand or both from the same spot on the sandy shore.

    I wish I got a picture, but there were people around. I didn’t want to take the chance of being spooked by one and then screaming like a girl.

    These were pretty cool looking. They had a paper wasp shape basically, with maybe slightly shorter legs. They didn’t have the yellow and black stripes. They were kinf of a copper color.

    My best Google search turned up Golden Digger wasps, but it said they were solitary. But they kind of looked like them just the same.

    stuart
    Mn.
    Posts: 3682
    September 22, 2011 at 5:49 pm #996645

    Quote:

    Only Stuart would take a photo of a bunch of bee butts.

    I thought it was kinda cool.Thats the most bees I have ever seen in one App hole.

    Brian Klawitter
    Keymaster
    Minnesota/Wisconsin Mississippi River
    Posts: 59992
    September 22, 2011 at 5:50 pm #996646

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