Friday Photo: 23 November
November 23rd, 2012 at 9:49 am by ChthoniidAnd today’s venture is back into the world of macro, but something diurnal. And not spider-like. Albeit still carnivorous…female too.
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November 23rd, 2012 at 9:53 am
She looks very smug. I love the green against the blue background. Great shot!
Vote:November 23rd, 2012 at 10:12 am
Interestingly I watched a wasp kill and dismember one of these. I photographed the sequence of events. Crap photos unfortunately but I had no idea wasps killed.
Vote:November 23rd, 2012 at 10:23 am
Excellent pikkie, Chthoniid.
Is this the NZ or the Springbok mantis? [O. novaezealandiae or Miomatis caffra]?
How did you set up the shot?
Vote:November 23rd, 2012 at 10:32 am
“she looks very smug”…post-coitus?.
Vote:November 23rd, 2012 at 10:32 am
Never before has the true, loving face of the Labour Party been captured with such clarity
Vote:November 23rd, 2012 at 10:49 am
@IHStewart
Yeah, the introduced wasp species are very nasty. They’re an extinction-machine for a lot of our native invertebrates, and incredibly hard to control at an ecological scale.
@Elyacee
This is the Springbok one
Setup was the standard camera, macro lens and ring flash. I also set up a blue card behind the insect, with the aim of bouncing some light back on to her (and banishing the black areas that often are produced by the small apertures of macro photography). You don’t always have scope to use a card with macro photography, but its a good cheap tool when you can.
Of course, picking a still day also helps; even light wind will produce too much motion to track the insect.
@Carlos @sbk
They’re an alert insect, and often turn to look at the you. I’m afraid she always looks like this, it’s not post-coital
Vote:November 23rd, 2012 at 11:09 am
FFS can we get off the subject of Cunliffe? this is getting tedious.
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