It’s A Bug’s Life


I am no anthropologist, so these insects will go largely unlabelled.


Ooo, the light.


Yep, from ages ago, the reversed-lens super macro method! Continued from this and this.


With flash.


Again, with flash.


Without flash. Running insects are hard to keep in focus and in view; you’d tend to focus on the floor instead.


In the beginning… (picture downsized so as to not draw focus to possibly deappetizing subject.)


This is a crop from before.


Superfly!


Uh, what? (Even at F8.0, darkest aperture for my Canon Powershot A520, it was out of focus.)


This critter ran all over the leaf.


This one was oblivious.


Where’s my stash?


Most insects can be approached from above slowly; they are very sensitive to motion from the side.


Pollen!


A primitive pentapod.


Hibiscus. I think.


Escape pod.


Lovebuds.


Now it’s really eating its home.

8 thoughts on “It’s A Bug’s Life

  1. lix Post author

    wtf, that maggot shot is damn disgusting 99. Lol! Now I cannot eat my teochew porridge properly.

    i like picture #5 though, and the bee showing off its butt.

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