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Reply #10 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 2:17am
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DentonDoc wrote on Dec 21st, 2012 at 2:07am:
I disagree.  Their purpose is to be annoyingly loud while in the process of making little cicada's.  Roll Eyes

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These are about the size of a grain of rice.  As far as I know they don't I've never heard them make as much noise as their two inch cousins.
  
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Reply #11 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 3:31am
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starwatcher wrote on Dec 21st, 2012 at 2:17am:
DentonDoc wrote on Dec 21st, 2012 at 2:07am:
I disagree.  Their purpose is to be annoyingly loud while in the process of making little cicada's.  Roll Eyes

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These are about the size of a grain of rice.  As far as I know they don't I've never heard them make as much noise as their two inch cousins.


Just don't take a walk in the woods down this way in the spring time ... deafening!
  
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Reply #12 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 6:46am
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Here's another cool bug:
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I'm not convinced on the cicada label for the other but I got no clue so....

Both seem to hang out a few at a time on my tent on sunny August afternoons. A grain of rice is a good size description as the textures you see are my tent and netting. I've just noticed them the last few years.


Just think if these guys were measured in feet:
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Reply #13 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 7:53am
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Nice bug photos, Lynda and db!

What kind of equipment do you use for these close-ups? Long lens? short lens? tripod? extension tubes? big dollar close-up lens?

Clearly the ante has been upped for the quality of next year's PODs, so I have to know what the competition is doing Smiley
  
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Reply #14 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 12:32pm
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Jim J Solo wrote on Dec 20th, 2012 at 2:42pm:
This fall I was watching large flocks in "V's" flying very high. Hard to ID for sure but I thought they could be Trumpeter Swans, not Canada Geese. Their honking just sounded a bit different and the wing beat a bit slower.

A good chance those were Tundra Swans (Whistling Swan), kinda sound like barking dogs. Migration route comes down through WI from way up north then they either head to the west or come east to the coast. I always see them around Thanksgiving riding a cold front from the north.

db, I would call it a leafhopper, some are quite colorful, they put little brown dots on leaves where they pierce and suck. That other dude is ugly

Coral fungus, Brent/Darky Portage
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Rock Tripe, everywhere.
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Reply #15 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 1:30pm
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I shoot with a Canon DSLR (up until a couple of years ago an old D60, now a 7D), and I have a macro lens but I don't take it on canoe trips.  It just adds too much weight.  My butterflies and insects are almost always shot hand-held with a telephoto lens from some distance away. 

The pine bark beetle was shot in 2010 with the 7D, with an L-series 70-200 IS lens, and probably shot at almost 200 mm.  I made quite a few shots and this was the best one.  (The joy of digital.)  The background was my shirt which just happened to have been thrown on a log near the fire grate.  If you could see the original of this one, (not compressed) it is very, very sharp.  I can enlarge it to 16 x 20 easily.

This spider was taken in 2007 with my old D60 and a Canon 75-300 lens, back on the biffy.  Again hand-held from some distance (although I didn't kill it, and I did use the throne with him in residence for a couple days.)

When I am shooting very, very tiny flowers and have lots of time (with the tripod close to the ground), I have a Canon 500 diopter that I can put on the end of my telephoto lens for extreme closups, but haven't used that much since getting the L-series IS lens.

Have never tried to shoot butterflies and damselflies from a tripod--they just move too much.  I stalk them with the telephoto lens and try to be patient.
  
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Reply #16 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 1:50pm
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To change up just a bit from insects, here is a garter snake gliding across the water.  (Shot with a Canon D60, with a 75-300 telephoto lens, from the canoe.)
  
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Reply #17 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 1:56pm
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How do you feel about fungus?

This one is from this year's canoe trip, in the woods in back of a campsite on Cherokee Lake.

Tripod shot with a 70-200 lens.  On my belly in the dirt.
  
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Reply #18 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 3:40pm
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pajeff, Thanks for the Swan tip. You sent me to my guide books to learn more about Swans.

I'm enjoying the pics and info everyone's sharing here.
  
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Reply #19 - Dec 21st, 2012 at 4:44pm
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db wrote on Dec 21st, 2012 at 6:46am:
I'm not convinced on the cicada label for the other but I got no clue so....

Both seem to hang out a few at a time on my tent on sunny August afternoons. A grain of rice is a good size description as the textures you see are my tent and netting. I've just noticed them the last few years.

Reference: Here's the Peterson insect guide for leafhoppers, Family Cicdellidae, same as Cidadas, but only 20 times smaller.

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