The Coleoptera (beetles) are the largest
group of insects. Your's could be a
member of the family Meloidae or
Carabidae but that's an very wild guess.
It's impossible to tell from the
picture. Is the body soft? Only a few
beetles can be identified by their
superficial appearance. There are 15 000
different Scarabs, 2000 Lady Bird
species, many thousands of water beetle
species and, as I said, more beetles
than any other kind of creepy crawly we
have. There are probably as many beetles
still undiscovered as those we know
about. But I have only a rudimentary
knowledge of entomology. I can tell a
spider from an insect and a beetle from
a bug. Collecting insects is like stamp
collecting you decide on a genus and
then you start. After a few hundred
years you haven't found a tenth of them.
Don W
Albano Garcia wrote:
Hi Don,
I care, thanks for the info. Do you know wich insect
is it?
It loved to eat the louses for sure.
Regards
Albano
--- Don Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've taken a looked at the pictures of
the rather beautiful beetle. I don't
think it's a Lady Bird, the shape is
wrong. The Coccinellidae, as far as I
recall, are all oval in shape this one
is not. The oval shape is a taxonomic
feature. Does anyone care? I suppose not.
Don W
Albano Garcia wrote:
Hi Tim,
It's not the toy, it's the operator :-) I was so
fascinated looking at it that I forgot about
composition. It was difficult too since it was my
first bugs macro experience (with a non macro,
cheap,
consumer but lovely zoom).
It was fascinating to see the ladybird in action
too.
Regards
Albano
--- Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Main object in centre,
- the new toy makes you compose badly ;-)
Seriously. It is fascinating to fight bugs with
bugs. In older days this was
common knowledge, now we tend to think chemicals.
Bad for the bugs yes, but also bad for us, and
the
planet.
Tim
Mostly harmless (just plain Norwegian)
Never underestimate the power of stupidity in
large
crowds
(Very freely after Arthur C. Clarke, or some
other
clever guy)
-----Original Message-----
From: Albano Garcia
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 2. desember 2005 16:03
To: PDML
Subject: PESO: Terminator Ladybird
Hi gang,
First, I went to the dark side. I got a Nikon
D50
with
the kit lens, and a Transcend 80x sd card. All I
can
say is I'm very very happy with my purchase, the
results so far have been stunning. I love the
thing.
Well, going to the pictures, a short story. My
dear
plants at my window, got infected by plant
louses.
I
tried a lot of methods, and they're still there.
Online, I read in several places that ladybirds
eats
them with pleasure. So, yesterday, I found one
on
my
kitchen, took her to the poor sick plant and let
her
have a lunch.
I took her some pics with my new toy. You can
see
two
here:
Nikon D50, 18-55 kit lens, ISO 200, 1/60 f11,
built-in
flash. They're full size, almost 1 mb each, so
you
can
see in detail the f...ng louses.
http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar/ladybird/DSC_0232.jpg
http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar/ladybird/DSC_0238.jpg
I never do this kind of photography, it was very
funny...
Comments welcome
Regards
Albano Garcia
Photography & Graphic Design
http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar
http://www.flaneur.com.ar
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http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar
http://www.flaneur.com.ar
__________________________________________
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Albano Garcia
Photography & Graphic Design
http://www.albanogarcia.com.ar
http://www.flaneur.com.ar
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