Butterflies, Moths and Assorted Insects...

[Click]

Very colourful. Nicely done, MSH411.

 

[becceric]

Red-banded leafhopper

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That's pretty wild!
I'd love to see one around here, but I like our Oak trees too much.

 

[MSH411]

Thank you both.

This year the Japanese Beatles are making their presence known, they are heavy in all our preserves. Those little hoppers aren't as plentiful.

Another pesky little hopper

 

[Click]

Nice macro/proxy. I love the details in the eye.

 

[Nemorino]

Some hummingbird moth pictures with the R5m2 + RF100L
TV mode set to 1/10 000s and ISO25600
f/4.5 - f/5.6

 

[ThomasTH]

Great series! These are really fast. The second and third photos are really good. Very smooth background too.

 

[Click]

Very nice series. Well done, Nemorino.

 

[Nemorino]

Thank You, @ThomasTH and @Click !

Red admiral and Comma
R5m2 + RF100L

 

[Click]

Another very nice series. I really like the low POV. Well done.

 

[Noreaster]

Monarch

 

[Click]

Lovely shot. I really like this one. Beautiful bokeh and very nice composition. Well done.

 

[becceric]

I don't generally photograph moths and butterflies, but I have more time to try these days.

This Pale Beauty Moth sat on a leaf for quite some time, allowing the breeze (and my wavering stance) to attempt a portrait.
It has an interesting radiance in full sun, but I did not care for those photos overall look.

Wow, was it difficult to get enough depth of field without the background becoming distracting. I did not succeed.

 

[ISv]

I don't generally photograph moths and butterflies, but I have more time to try these days.

This Pale Beauty Moth sat on a leaf for quite some time, allowing the breeze (and my wavering stance) to attempt a portrait.
It has an interesting radiance in full sun, but I did not care for those photos overall look.

Wow, was it difficult to get enough depth of field without the background becoming distracting. I did not succeed.
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?! If you mean the leaf getting to much in focus - actually I think it makes the image even more interesting to me (but it's just me!).

 

[ThomasTH]

Monarch

Wow, that is a wonderful picture with the soft light, beautiful bokeh and colours.

 

[Click]

?! If you mean the leaf getting to much in focus - actually I think it makes the image even more interesting to me (but it's just me!).

Same here.

 

[becceric]

?! If you mean the leaf getting to much in focus - actually I think it makes the image even more interesting to me (but it's just me!).

Thanks, ISv and Click!
Oh, I like the leaf in focus too.
I was trying to get the left wing(or right wing as the moth flies) in focus also, but this was the only angle where the framing was best.

 

[josephandrews222]

...sort of a do-over of this (but today's post is with still-new-to-me gear):

Post in thread 'Butterflies, Moths and Assorted Insects...'

Jul 15, 2022

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?).

Thanks for your helpful response. If it weren't for Google etc I would be truly clueless on this subject.

Quoting from here:

"There are four species of hummingbird moths in North America. The most familiar ones are the Snowberry Clearwing (Hemaris diffinis) and the Hummingbird Clearwing (Hemaris thysbe)."

I so enjoy reading these links because some of what I read is so, so correct...and some of what I read ties into other nonsense...

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...with R5II and 200-800 @ about 600; ISO 250; 1/750s; f/9.5



...lots of antenna detail on the port side. Hair?

I should've shot at much higher ISO to freeze the wing movement.

 

[Click]

Very nice shot, josephandrews222. Well done.

 

[Nemorino]

Another hummingbird moth
R5m2 + RF100L
A crop of 6369x3582px exported as QHD
1/4000s, f/11, iso 8000

Of cause I didn't croped the insect.

 

[Click]

Nice close-up.