Recent content by pbertner

Trap jaw ant with larva: Harvestman: Golden question mark Leafcutter ant: Predaceous midge larva feeding: Hunting strategy: Like the New Zealand glowing cave midge larva these larvae, found around streams and shoulder level foliage, produce a sticky...

Juvenile scolopendra: Imantodes cenchoa: Cicada headshot: Trap jaw ant (Odontomachus sp.) Tiger beetle: High mag. shots were made with 100mm canon with raynox msn-202 (4x close up filter) on a 7D. This handles well and only vignettes at the lowest mag. range of...

Thanks for the comments all, much appreciated! Cliff these guys are larger bodied than your traditional harvestmen with bodies about 1-1.5 cm long.

How even the bright harvestmen are able to blend in (Yellow Gonyleptid harvestman): "ahem...wait I think I've got something in my palps...oh how embarrassing" under uv light: Thanks to Techuser on flickr for the idea of using UV on harvestmen. Here shows the use of a tripod using 15...

Yellow Gonyleptid? harvestman: Reddish Gonyleptid? harvestman: Same harvestman exposed to 365nm wavelength (UV) light: Harvestman with moth: Under UV: I had already known that material in the chitin of scorpions fluoresced when exposed to UV light, however, thanks to...

Beautiful colours in the second picture, the first one is cute with the tags.

Quite like the shot of the gills on that second one, nice perspective.

Like the shots, on the first did you use flash or was it just bright sun?

Bark mimicking mantid: Iridescent bug: Sparassid with prey: Ant milking scale insect: Trapped ant: Sawfly larva: Thanks for looking and commenting, Yesterday the tire flew off my minibus, I cut the head off a pit viper and I was banned from a commercial flight by...

nice shots...2 and 3 I'd be tempted to use stacking sofware to get that front leg into focus. Everything else is in focus here so it is slightly distracting. just the fact that it is in the foreground and not background make it more readily apparent to my eye. Like the detail on the spider claw...

I really prefer to give constructive criticism rather than the simple 'nice shot' remarks int the hopes that others will do the same for me...so.... You have two focal points 1) The insect eyes 2) the middle of the flower. One would like to see both of these in focus. however it looks like...

A few familiar faces around here. Kick off with these wild critters: Shield bug portrait: Alydidae adult: Ant mimicking Alydidae nymph: Shield bug on flower: Hairy caterpillar: Ant at flower: Some tips, tricks and techniques for the newbie and enthusiast alike can...