Argggh! Bugs in My Scope!

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:24 pm

There is this big tree in my front yard, you know the kind that ends up being on the 6 o'clock news after it was brought down on your neighbors house after a bad thunderstorm.

Well anyway this tree has little red blooms all over it and I thought I would see what kind of photograph they would produce using the Meiji stereomicroscope. Well to my surprise...

Sony DSC-W5
Program mode
1/8 sec. @ f/2.8 ISO 100
Meiji EMZ-13TR
Onboard halogen illumination w/blue diffuser

Would ya just look at this! My first bug of the year and it ain't even spring yet.

Here is a couple more of the critter.

(1/6 sec. both second and third image, all other data same as above)

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:34 pm

Looks like some kind of soft-winged flower beetle. Beautiful little critter and photos Ken. matches the red flower very well.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:42 pm

It is really tiny Doug, maybe about 2 - 3 mm in length, I was more for photographing the blooms than a bug but what the heck, any port in a storm and a bugs, a bug. Thanks Doug