Cranefly portrait

[Deleted member 3428]

Portrait of a friendly resting cranefly. It's modified back wing the Haltere shows up well in the second image. It's the thing that looks like a drum stick bottom right.

 

[CT]

Stop it now... I'm gonna be selling my macro lens!

 

[gwocni]

Hit it on the bl@@dy head.... Far too good.

Superb

 

[Deleted member 3428]

Stop it now... I'm gonna be selling my macro lens!

How much

Hit it on the bl@@dy head.... Far too good.

Superb

:bonk: last ones for a while.

 

[TomB]

The clarity and detail in these are amazing even by your standards, especially around the mouthparts.

 

[torque22]

Wonder if the director of Alien had a raynox lens....would explain where he got some of his ideas from.

 

[Richard T]

Wonder if the director of Alien had a raynox lens....would explain where he got some of his ideas from.

lol!

great shots

 

[Ladybird]

PLEASE tell me it's eating something! It can not look like that, surely? :shake:

 

[Slapo]

Best in the last two weeks from you in my PoV.
No cropping?

 

[Deleted member 3428]

The clarity and detail in these are amazing even by your standards, especially around the mouthparts.

Thanks for your kind comment Tom

Wonder if the director of Alien had a raynox lens....would explain where he got some of his ideas from.

I reckon a lot of scary baddies come the the insect world.

lol!

great shots

Thanks for looking Richard

PLEASE tell me it's eating something! It can not look like that, surely? :shake:

Yes LB that's its mouth parts in full, they eat pollen.

 

[Ladybird]

EEEWWWWW!!!!!! Now I know there is a good reason for my fear of those things!

 

[jeangenie]

I suppose, to another crane fly, this is a very cool dude (or dudess:shrug I agree with LB, and I wouldn't hang around to get acquainted with it.

The detail is scary, but ... what fantastic pics. I keep going back to them and each time find more detail. Brilliant.