image of a female damselfly resting in the reeds taken with 100mm macro lens 1.1
This little creature is going to be digging for a while if he plans to gain any nutrients from this solid building. He came to visit me this morning as I strolled onto my balcony to check the weather. I think he may be a little way from home. Featured in “Damselflies – (Zygoptera)” Group
A male Mnesarete drepane in Orellana Province, Ecuador, 12 October 2009. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro
Nikon D300 105mm w/ extension tube / August 2009 / Glass Lake, N.Y. USA The damselfly nymph is very predacious. It usually lies in wait for other aquatic bugs to get within range and grabs them with its ‘labium’ which is much like a modified lower jaw. The nymph will proceed through 10 to 12 molts before becoming fully developed and ready to emerge as an adult. With each molt the nymph becomes somewhat darker in color. / / Finally the nymph will crawl up on vegetation and break through its skin along the wing case and out comes a shortened version of the adult. Before it takes flight, the new adult must pump body fluids into its abdomen and wings. This causes both to lengthen. Depending on the species, the adult will live for several weeks to several months before mating and dying. Meanwhile the nymph of the next generation will move to the deeper water in the fall. It will hibernate over winter and return to the shallow water the following spring to begin the process all over again. (Info: Ron Newman)
A resting Damselfly / Olympus e500 / 50mm macro
Telebasis brevis in El Oro Province, Ecuador, 10 April 2008. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro + 1.4x tele
Calopteryx aequabilis (River Jewelwing) on the South Fork John Day River, Grant Co., Oregon, 5 July 2008. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro + 1.4x tele
Hesperagrion heterodoxum (Painted Damsel) on the Blue River, Greenlee Co., Arizona, 31 July 2007. Canon 350D, 180 mm macro + 1.4x tele
Enallagma concisum (Cherry Bluet) in South Carolina, USA, 10 May 2008. Notice the water mite near the tip of the abdomen. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro + 1.4x tele
The Damselfly (Suborder Zygoptera) is an insect in the Order Odonata. Damselflies are similar to dragonflies, but the adults can be differentiated by the fact that the wings of most damselflies are held along, and parallel to, the body when at rest. Furthermore, the hindwing of the damselfly is essentially similar to the forewing, while the hindwing of the dragonfly broadens near the base, caudal to the connecting point at the body. Damselflies are also usually smaller, weaker fliers than dragonflies, and their eyes are separated.(Wiki)
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THE SUBJECT: / The bulbous black eyes of a beautiful Austroargiolestes icteromelas (Common Flatwing) stare into the photographer’s lens. THE LOCATION: / This close-up was made along the boardwalk in the Kooloonbung Creek Nature Park in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia on a very hot ‘n’ sticky late spring day. THE MAKING OF ‘Dainty Damsel’: / I was out on safari with a couple of Port Macquarie Panthers Camera Club mates when we entered a nice cool, wet and shady area of the park where to a background of frog choruses we spotted lots of Damselflies and Dragonflies zipping around. This lovely specimen stayed in one place long enough for me to draw a good photographical bead on it for a study shot. / I was using the 100-300 lens as we were likely to come across some bird life so getting used to shooting close-ups with this lens was still relatively new to me after years of using my Fuji S9600. / Canon EOS D60 & Canon Ultrasonic 100-300mm Lens#: RAW, 1/200sec @ f/11, 250mm, -1EV, ISO100, Auto focus, Hand held. / Lightroom 2.2 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Insects & Spiders collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more delightful damsels. Enjoy! DRAGONS & DAMSELS / (Click the links!) Austroargiolestes icteromelas – Dainty Damsel / Austroagrion watsoni / Austroargiolestes icteromelas / Ischnura heterosticta / Trapezostigma loewi / Orthetrum caledonicum / Synthemis cyantincta / Synthemis cyantincta / Synthemis cyantincta / Orthetrum villosovittatum /
A male Psaironeura bifurcata in Pastaza Province, Ecuador, 7 October 2009. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro
A male Teinopodagrion setigerum in Napo Province, Ecuador, 16 October 2009. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro
An undescribed species of Argia in Orellana Province, Ecuador, 11 October 2009. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro
This insect was sitting on the wall in my hall. I’m not sure where it came from, but it was a surprise to me! Unfortunately, I’ve no idea what type it is… Nikon D60, Nikon 105mm
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A male Polythore concinna in Orellana Province, Ecuador, 15 October 2009. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro
A male Mnesarete drepane in Orellana Province, Ecuador, 12 October 2009. Canon 40D, 180 mm macro
Wow where did that week go?, internet was down most of the week at work and I have just been so busy with sorting things out at home I haven’t had chance to put up my daily smile…........... hopefully internet will be back to normal and i can post everyday again, I did manage a bit of me time on Saturday by going to Langstone Harbour and spent a wonderful few hours watching all the wading birds arriving and feeding as the tide came in and went out, I feel so lucky living a few minutes drive away from a wonderful relaxing place. I need to go through my photos and submit a few too. Here is today’s smiler A Irish man wants a job, but the foreman won’t hire him until he passes a / little maths test. Here is your first question, the foreman S aid. ”Without using numbers, / represent the number 9.” “Without numbers?” The Irish Man says, “Dat is easy.” And proceeds to draw three trees. “What’s this?” the boss asks “Ave you got no brain? Tree and tree and tree make nine,” says the Irish / Man “Fair enough,” says the boss. ”Here’s your second question. Use the same / rules, but this time the number is 99.” The Irish Man stares into space for a while, then picks up the picture that he has just drawn and makes a smudge on each tree. ”Ere you go.” The boss scratches his head and says, “How on earth do you get that to represent 99?” “Each of da trees is dirty now. So, it’s dirty tree, and dirty tree, and / dirty tree. Dat is 99.” The boss is getting worried that he’s going to actually have to hire this / Irish Man, so he says, “All right, last question. Same rules again, but / represent the number 100.” The Irish Man stares into space some more, then he picks up the picture again and makes a little mark at the base of each tree and says, “Ere you go. One hundred.” / The boss looks at the attempt. ”You must be nuts if you think that / represents a hundred!” The Irish Man leans forward and points to the marks at the base of each tree and says, “A little dog come along and crap by each tree. So now you got dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, and dirty tree and a turd, / which makes one hundred.” “So, when do I start?”
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