Hi all,
It's been a while since I uploaded any photos. I've still been active on my blog, and have been posting photo and stories. I just haven't put any up here because they have all been about insects and I have posted quite a number of pictures over the past few months. I don't want to wear...
OK, I am exploiting some literary license-bees don't have a bum after all-but I just couldn't resist! The item in question is actually the abdomen of a bumble bee; and the photo below is one of a baker's dozen of pics of western thatching ants I posted on my blog last night.
Cheers,
EC...
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The photo below is of a freshwater planarian flatworm (Polycelis coronate) as it crawls along the surface of a submerged leaf. I posted this photo and a number of others on my blog tonight.
I have had a life-long fascination with planaria (I blame my sister, as I explain in my blog)...
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The photo below is a portrait of a blue bottle fly that is one of the pictures that went up on my blog yesterday. These are a common type of blow fly that has the delightful scientific name of Calliphora vomitoria. Considering that these flies feed on carrion, their scientific name...
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My latest blog is about photographing ants...which are everything that a macro photographer looks for: they are small (pretty much a prerequisite for macro), attractive (some of them at least) and best of all, they do interesting things. The photo below is a western thatching ant...
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I have discovered that I really like photographing spiders... they are pretty darn interesting critters-both in behaviour and appearance. Plus of course many species are ambush predators that sit in one place and wait for prey to come along (sit-and-wait predators). The nice thing about...
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I posted this photo of a harvestman on my blog the other night-an arachnid that isn't a spider for a change! Mind you, I did get some more really nice pics of spiders recently...they will go up soon.
Cheers,
EC
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harvestman F22 copyright Ernie Cooper 2012_filtered sm for...
Not for the squeamish: the photo below is of a feeding mosquito: one of a series of pictures I posted on my blog last night of this mosquito slowly filled its gut with my blood!
Cheers,
EC
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mosquito 7 copyright Ernie Cooper 2012 sm for post by ernie.cooper, on Flickr
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I finally had the chance to get back out in the field to look for bugs with my camera. I posted a number of photos on my blog last night-this was my favourite. It's always nice to see something enjoying a nice feast...
Cheers,
EC
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spider 1 copyright Ernie Cooper 2012 sm...
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Yesterday I finally had the chance to head off with a net to a nearby slough to collect some more pond critters to photograph. I was specifically looking for either backswimmers or water boatmen-and of course I didn't find any of either...
...but I did take collect a water strider to...
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OK, I think I have sorted out the problems I was having with stacking images. The photo below is of an immature drumming katydid (Meconema thalassinum) that I posted on my blog last night. It was compiled from a stack of 41 images. Its head was no more that 2 or 3 mm across. What do you...
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I know this isn't an aquatic animal (but it is a crustacean), but...
I posted this photo on my blog last night--a highly magnified picture of a common sow bug or woodlouse (order Isopoda).-along with a brief explanation of how I did it.
More discussion will follow in the next couple...
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I posted this photo on my blog last night, along with an explanation of how I used Photoshop to salvage the picture.
Later today I will be posting some much nicer pictures of this same critter...
Cheers,
EC
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Hi all,
Last night I posted macro photos of 3 types of shrimp (cherry red, Pinocchio and flower) on my blog and thought I would re-post one of them here. I'd love to read any comments or suggestions...
Cheers,
EC