Butterflies, Moths and Assorted Insects...
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Nice shot with intense color contrast (obviously)! What type of butterfly is that?
When on Rhodes and chasing for black pennant dragonflies, I came across an insect that was black and yellow and always flying.
It was flying in a dragonfly style and so fast that I couldn't recognize its shape and form.
So I went trying to shoot it in flight. And in the end I could get one on the ground.
So now I know those are scolia hirta, in German "Borstige Dolchwespe" (translated: "bristly dagger wasp"
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These were the best in flight:
This is the first on the ground:
More to come...
It was flying in a dragonfly style and so fast that I couldn't recognize its shape and form.
So I went trying to shoot it in flight. And in the end I could get one on the ground.
So now I know those are scolia hirta, in German "Borstige Dolchwespe" (translated: "bristly dagger wasp"
)These were the best in flight:
This is the first on the ground:
More to come...
Still don't know 100% what this is, but I suppose it's from the family hesperiidae.
If someone knows, please let me know.
If someone knows, please let me know.
Maybe. Thanks, Oskar. But I always get confused with these little brown fellows.
...no idea!? I would call it a bumblebee.
EDIT: Hummingbird Clearwing?
EDIT: Hummingbird Clearwing?
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Great shot!
Should be a hemaris fuciformis, broad-bordered bee hawk-moth.
Look for Hemaris and depends where you took the photo you may have an easy ID...
Thank you.
Hemaris thysbe (I think).
A few better(?) images from the same set:
I've been one of the bigger 'honks' on this website for Canon's M bodies...and have, for a decade or so now, given serious thought to the subject of acquiring images with the aid of a viewfinder vs using an LCD screen. For all I know this has been discussed in detail already here...
I can distinctly recall an 'early' epiphany (for me) about a decade ago when I learned that 'taking pictures' at a rock concert, seated/standing two rows from the stage (widely varying lighting conditions)...was facilitated quite nicely without the aid of a viewfinder (using the tiny-and-stealthy Canon S95)...adjusting exposure compensation on-the-fly...constantly...for the better part of an hour (hundreds of images)...with constant monitoring of the rear-screen LCD. Viewing the LCD allowed examination of the entire image and stage...and the lighting conditions for much of the stage. It is almost as if half-an-arms-length distance between my eyes and the screen I was examining enabled me to be more aware of what was happening on-stage, including lighting changes. For printed images up to 8x10...it really worked...and I've never forgotten that.
But the images presented here (5DMkIII + 100-400II) were acquired using the optical viewfinder...and if I had been using my M6MkII instead of the full-frame 5D, I would have attached the electronic viewfinder--telephoto lens usage at the long end, at least in my hands, REQUIRES a viewfinder.
In this case, all I wanted to see was the 'target'...probably obvious to many reading this but not so much to me.
Looks like H. thysbe for me too... On other hand I have not much info about the rest of Hemaris in N. America (3 more I think?).
