First critter as part of the 52 Critters project: Common Name: Giant Orange Lacewing Scientific Name: Nymphes myrmeleonoide Critter found at: City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, Australia Had to increase the ISO quite a bit for the shot as it was hanging underneath leaf. Caused the noise in the shot to be somewhat more than I would …
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Dec
26
Best Photos Of 2011
This post is part of the very excellent ‘Your Best Photos From 2011” blog project run by Jim M. Goldstein, a very worthy project to be involved in to get your photos seen and also to see amazing photos from other photographers from around the world. This show cases some of the ones I feel are my …
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Nov
08
Help Me Identify This Critter [Updated: Identified!]
Updated – Now identified! Thanks to an amazingly fast turn around by the Queensland Museum the mystery creature has been identified as a fly belonging to the family Nemestrinidae and the genus Atriadops more commonly known as ‘Tangle-veined Flies’. This particular fly is a female of the species so the scary looking protrusion is in fact a ovipositor used in egg …
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