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Post by Lydia Robledo on Aug 8, 2008 4:44:12 GMT
I'd like to start this thread with this unusual capture in Bohol a couple of years back. I have no idea what it is, though it looks a lot like an ant except it has a looooong tail.  |
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Post by Romy Ocon on Aug 8, 2008 6:52:00 GMT
Wow.... what could that bizarre looking thing be???  |
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Post by Carmela Balcazar on Aug 8, 2008 11:02:34 GMT
nymph?
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Post by tina mallari on Aug 8, 2008 14:02:22 GMT
This is DEFINITELY not an ant but I find it quite interesting and WEIRD ;D  |
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Post by Neon Rosell II on Aug 8, 2008 15:50:24 GMT
I'd like to start this thread with this unusual capture in Bohol a couple of years back. I have no idea what it is, though it looks a lot like an ant except it has a looooong tail. Wow!! nice catch!! I think this is a wasp, most wasp are parasitic and the long tail is actually an ovipositor (where eggs pass and used to inject it's host to lay the egg inside them)......hhmmm I think it's a bird..it has wings and can fly....dadidadida.... |
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Post by Neon Rosell II on Aug 8, 2008 15:56:29 GMT
This is DEFINITELY not an ant but I find it quite interesting and WEIRD ;D Another wow!! Great catch Tina!! I think this one is a catydid - it's the insect that produces most of the "crickety" noise during the night...maybe it's a bird too I can see the wings...    |
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Post by tina mallari on Aug 8, 2008 16:51:18 GMT
LOL Neon !!!! Looks like you are having a severe case of bird photography withdrawal !!! BWAhahHAhahAHahAHhaHAa tsk! tsk! poor you - HEhEHehHEe
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Post by Lydia Robledo on Aug 8, 2008 17:31:51 GMT
Well, it's timely and proper to be represented by the lovely spouse tomorrow, (oh, tonight) now knowing his present condition as diagnosed by Tina. Maybe he was bitten by a wasp or stressed by a cricket or has eaten a Tinola raptor, la dida-dida... telids  |
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Post by Lydia Robledo on Aug 8, 2008 17:35:15 GMT
Oh Tina, that's a lovely cricket- with very fragile limbs.antennae. Let's get those bugs out of our un-camphored chests. telyd
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Post by Teddy Regpala on Aug 8, 2008 18:21:12 GMT
Should we all start buying macro lenses in favor of those expensive big glasses? ;D
Actually, I'm planning to do macros too, but not on bugs yet.
By the way, I agree with neon, it's a catydid. Not familiar with the ant-like bug though.
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Post by Romy Ocon on Aug 9, 2008 0:03:40 GMT
Should we all start buying macro lenses in favor of those expensive big glasses? ;D Actually, I'm planning to do macros too, but not on bugs yet. Ted, the techniques to get a good bird photo - stalking, placement of DOF, BG selection, eye-level angle, etc. - can be similarly applied to bug macros, with the added bonus that you can use flash on bugs without too much "red-eye" issues. Also, there are proportionately more bugs in one's backyard than birds, with the exception perhaps of Ding's place.  |
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Post by Ding Carpio on Aug 9, 2008 4:43:44 GMT
Also, there are proportionately more bugs in one's backyard than birds, with the exception perhaps of Ding's place. Na-ah! (intonation like Ellen Page's Juno) Lots of birds here. Gazillion bugs. Every morning, I walk on a crunchy garage, squishing bugs of different sizes, shapes, and color. Not to worry, they're all dead; it's a bug graveyard. About 4 nights in a year, we get invaded by a vast cloud of gamugamo's which all shed their wings and die on our decks; major sweeping chore afterwards. |
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