I love that last one!

I assume this would be of interest to this group, if it's not improper to post something like this here.

The Beauty of Pollination from a Ted talk.

http://www.youtube.com/v/xHkq1edcbk4

so what did your flash do to the 'rhodopsin molecules'? :-)

What an amazing creature!

Both can be made to look fresh;the centipede in the link below was in a far worse state than your bugs. How do you go about restoring the subject? From the link given: " sided open-top plastic containers and cannot get out (no idea how they get in). When discovered they are dried shrunken shells bu...

Freeze dried caterpillar. It used to be plump and green. http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1031_20120114224831_ZS_PMax_002sm_1.jpg http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/1031_20120114224831_ZS_PMax_stereo0013_1.jpg Dried up tic I took from my dog a couple weeks ago, harpooned with...

For that 3x2 merge is that hand held, or do you do something to keep your lens rotating at the nodal point?

Martin G. wrote:I suppose you just screw the thread in the ring adapter that holds the lights?

Yes, that's right. A couple thread conversion rings and then the reverse adapter for the 2x TC.

OK, I thought you were saying your effective mag was about 2:1 (or 1/2x, maybe that should be said 1:2). After seeing this I dug out my old Bushnell 2x converter and actually found all the parts laying around to reverse and mount it to the MPE. If I leave the reversing ring on the MPE the 2x TC goes...

So with mag of 2:1 that's about 2.5-4 inches across depending on your sensor size, right?

That seems small for this flower. I have an huge orange one and it would be about 8" across viewed like this one is in this image.

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... highlight=

#4 looks like a double reflection off both surfaces of a pane of glass.

These Nikkor 200mm primes can be found on ebay for under $50. How well do they work out?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/260889079387?ss ... 1439.l2649

And you saw that from 50 ft away?

no obvious proboscis at all as at http://lepidoptera.jcmdi.com/m/sph/occi ... spupae.jpg.

It definitely looks more like this one, very close in fact.

Therefore, not a tomato worm?

I believe it's dead from the parasites so I don't suppose any more will be learned than this.

Spider web after freezing rain.

Or perhaps like this: http://bugguide.net/node/view/26809/bgimage.

--Rik

It actually looked more like the tomato horn worm than that.