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Favorite photos from 2021
I finally got around uploading my favorites of last year, trimmed them down to about 80 photos which are in most part from a few weeks in Ecuador the beginning of the year, as always detailed insect macrophotography and spiders make the bulk of the gallery.
Almost all macros that year were taken with the new Laowa 50mm on either my Olympus EPL5 or EM5, and for a change, bird photography was done back with my Canon 70-300 5.6 IS adapted to M4/3 which turned out unexpectedly great, this shall be the theme of a coming post.
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2021
Cupiennius wandering spider
Andean cock of the rock
Lichen stick bug
Green eyed katydid
Harvestman preying on a plant hopper
Wasp parasited by entomopathogenic fungus
Army ants attacking a rival species
Pustulous-looking harvestman
Stick bug close-up
Army ants guarding their prey cache of larva and pupae
Diaphorolepis shadow snake
Harvestman guarding eggs, with embryos visible
Anaptomecus hunstman spider
A harvestman glowing in UV light
Unidentified coccoon with resin lattice
Mating lichen stick bugs
Habitat shot of Mindo’s cloud forest
Teal and blue glitter weevil
Cupiennius wandering spider
Acanthocteninae wandering spider
Cupiennius found post moult with blueish legs
False eye pattern on a butterfly wing
Yellow harvestman portrait
Huntsman spider guarding an eggsac
Harvestman preying on a green planthopper
Rainfrog vocalizing with inflated vocal sac
Ghost spider with prey
Details of a millipede
Harvestman foraging on the leaflitter
Mindo cloud forest
White fronted capuchin
Micro orchid flowers
A juvenile crab spider hanging on a web
Lichen camouflaged stick bug on a fern leaf
Harvestman guarding eggs underneath a leaf
Hackled orb weaver, a venomless spider
Portrait of a harvestman
Recently hatched young harvestmen
Spiny devil katydid
Portrait of a horned darkling beetle
Chrysso spider with spiderlings
Red and blue flea beetle
Flurescence of a harvestman on a tree trunk
Side portrait of a rainfrog
Harvestman carrying Chloropidae fly pupae parasites
Plated millipede exploring the forest floor
A spined katydid nymph with blue spikes
Frontal portrait of a unusually patterned rainfrog
Cobweb spider opening her eggsac
A katydid finishing it’s moult process
Red and black millipede on the leaflitter
Yellow fungi growing on a tree trunk
White necked jacobin in flight
Tawny bellied hermit in flight
Campbell’s toadheaded viper
White mushrooms on a rotting branch
A juvenile anolis on the same leaf as a planthopper
White mushroom on the forest floor
Gagrellinae harvestman preying on a planthopper
Paratropis, a primitive spider
A puprle fungus beetle
Cupiennius wandering spider found post moult
Mushroom with a water droplet over it
A metallic blue leaf beetle
A young Anolis
Portrait of a young amblypygi
Portrait of a green glass frog
Micro orchid found in Mindo Valley
Stingless bee hive found on the forest floor
Portrait of an army ant major soldier
Portrait of a stick bug
Crab spider feeding on a wild bee
Fluorescence of a crab spider eating a stingless bee
Brazilian porcupine
Metallic orchid bee
A jumping spider feeding on a dengue mosquito
Green jumping spider
A jararaca pit viper over water
Rarely photographed bees and other species
I’m writing this post as I think this past month was unusually high in number of interesting findings, including species that possibly got recorded alive for the first time – not photographed recently but from my archive. I haven’t been out photographing lately due to high gas/lodging prices and the diminishing returns of short 1-2 days expeditions, so in the meantime I’ve been processing older photos that either I haven’t followed through with identification at the time or just didn’t think they looked good enough compared to other photos I got in the queue to post.
When I say possibly recorded alive for the first time, it’s difficult to say for sure as my reference is google not showing any indexed photos of live (or sometimes not even fixed) specimens, they might have been photographed before but maybe just not identified or not uploaded anywhere, as is the case with myself, they were just sitting in my hard disk for years.… Continue reading
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Tagged bees, entomology, Insects, macrophotography, photonaturalism
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Update with best of 2018 gallery
Took me more than it should to make this selection but the gallery with my favorites of 2018 is now online together with a insect-only 2019 calendar:
Also worth noting from this year but not included in the selection was the mention in Nikon Small Word Competition and in the Wiki Loves Earth 2018:
Lycosidae & Pompilidae aka the wolf and the hawk
Pepsis species vs wolf spider
ISO400 | f/22 | 1/200 @55mm, under the sun with fill flash
I find parasitic wasps the most challenging ones to get their pictures taken, they are not social so you can’t find a bunch sitting in a nest like we are used for most. They are solitary, and when looking around for hosts they barely sit still, always walking and frenetically scanning the ground with their antennae. Pepsis is a genus with about 130 species from the Americas, these wasps belongs to the Pompilidae family bearing some of the biggest wasps in the world. They are specialized in spider hunting, hence the famous tarantula hawk nickname for some of the species.… Continue reading
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Tagged Insects, macrophotography, parasitic wasp, parasitism, rainforest
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