Bugs, bees and beasties- Bio-diversity matters

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Nice cricket Monkey-D!

Fungus, thats cool,defence systems come in all shapes & tastes!

 

 

I wouldnt wanna taste that caterpillar!

[RobArb]

how on earth do you get them to stay still for you??

 

mine jump and fly all over the place:lol:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

how on earth do you get them to stay still for you??

 

mine jump and fly all over the place:lol:

you chill bugs in the fridge for 20 mins!

[Fungus]

you chill bugs in the fridge for 20 mins!

 

Tony,

What's the next step then ? Glue their "feet" with a water dissolvable medium to a substrate to temporarely fixate them like a Dutch "nature" photographer did with lizards ? Honestly, you must be joking .

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tony,

What's the next step then ? Glue their "feet" with a water dissolvable medium to a substrate to temporarely fixate them like a Dutch "nature" photographer did with lizards ? Honestly, you must be joking .

 

I was joking! ive heard lots of "tricks" when studying photography, but glue takes the biscuit:thumbdown:

[geoff]

Mine were done with stealth ,just move slow(not a problem for me)! and dont cast a shadow on them.

I never thought about sticking them in the fridge,thats cheating!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Amateur Entomologists' Society (AES) - The gateway to entomology

[geoff]

Thanks Hamma,i'm off over there in a minute!

[janey]

Geoff,

The toxins not only do not hurt the caterpillar, it actively stores it in his body to become inedible to poisenous to predating birds.

 

Does anyone know what they fed on in the UK before Oxford Ragwort was introduced?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

good question janey!