Experimentation.
Experimentation.
Sunday was awesome... so nice out. It's a shame the weekend has passed. Back at the grind. Grrrrr...
I'm not sure what these are... they were clustered on a Crepe Myrtle:
As you can see above, at one time they have wings... then they don't (or maybe vice versa?):
There is some sort of molt that goes on in there, but I don't know when:
Any ideas what these are?
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 same point of view, EF 17-40mm f/4L, Hoya R72 |
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I don’t know what they are, but I remember that they are so very small. About a millimeter in length right?
sure they’re not ants…
LMAO!
(inside joke)
I like the natural color one. It almost looks a like professional picture I have at my place. The second is nice, but I think two many trees does not do colors the justice. I think, if there was more water, I may have liked the second better.
So basically go with whatever works for you. Photography is so personal. Keep is that way.
The cluster of bugs on the crepe myrtle look like baby katydids or cycadia (sp)....
Honey, didn’t you ever collect their skins (exoskeletons) offa trees when you were a wee tot? They hook on the bark, molt, then fly away after the wee wings (see them there?) strengthen and develop.
When I was little we called them locusts, but officially they are cicadas.
I think.
these were way too small to be cicadas… like the size of a pencil eraser head
say was the BW shot with or without the IR filter in place? (nightshot??)
thanks!
keep it up, you are an inspiration.
Those are most definitely CYCADIA bugs. Each “batch” only comes out of the ground once every 17 years. They arrive with red eyes (the myth being they’ve dug down so deep in the ground in those 17 yrs. that their eyes become red from having seen the “red of Hades"for so long.) I think once they molt, their eyes turn a different color. They are noted for their “singing,” which can be up to 90 decimals from a group! That’s the decimal of a semi coming down the highway! Enjoy them while you can.
I don’t think they are Cicadas. I grew up with the cicadas you speak of and they are usually almost an inch long when they emerge from the ground… some over an inch long. These insects were less than 1 centimeter in length.
I have emailed a local Entomology professor for assistance in ID.
Ok, They are barklice.
“in the order Psocoptera. The genus is probably Archipsocus.”
according to Dr. John A. Jackman, Professor and Extension Entomologist, Department of Entomology @TAMU
There you have it. :-)
Cerastipsocus venosus (Burmeister) to be exact.
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