mostlypixels

joined 2 years ago
[–] mostlypixels 4 points 1 year ago

I love it too! I wish I had noticed it when the picture was taken, because it's gorgeous.

[–] mostlypixels 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bees are macro on hard mode, they never stop moving. You did a fantastic job. I always end up using burst mode and prayer. Have fun experimenting!

[–] mostlypixels 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She looks like she's wearing a pollen crown!

[–] mostlypixels 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The bees are the best. They get SO dusty. Also: can I see, please?

[–] mostlypixels 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

90% "that's amazing, I had no idea it looked so cool" and 10% "what is this ungodly abomination, let me unsee this" in my experience :)

[–] mostlypixels 2 points 1 year ago

Why settle when I could get a 800mm 5.6 for a mere 14k?

[–] mostlypixels 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only reason I didn't impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don't even have bald eagles around here.

[–] mostlypixels 10 points 1 year ago

I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!

[–] mostlypixels 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try cloudhiker

[–] mostlypixels 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks! He's so puffy, I figured he was cold.

[–] mostlypixels 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gorgeous photograph. How cold was it outside that day?

[–] mostlypixels 2 points 1 year ago

Such a beautiful bird

 
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Hi there! (pics.letsfail.com)
 
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Autumnal butt (pics.letsfail.com)
 
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It's so fluffy! (pics.letsfail.com)
 
 
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[OC] Brown argus (pics.letsfail.com)
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A survivor (pics.letsfail.com)
 

It seemed to be doing fine as far as "racing over plants and climbing from leaf to leaf" was concerned.

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Cuterpillar (pics.letsfail.com)
 

Old World swallowtail

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by mostlypixels to c/[email protected]
 

Hi! Sorry, very new at the whole "bugs" thing, and I'm still learning. I spotted this the other day (not sure of the stink bug species, possibly Nezara viridula), promptly spent hours watching macro timelapses of stink bugs hatching, going from gooey babies to hard shelled nymphs...

Now to the question which has been bugging me: is there such a thing as "too late to hatch"? Can they "harden" inside the egg and just die there (maybe in the blackened eggs)?

Thanks!

Edit:

I found another nest of the same species and took it home. So: have a top view of the hatched eggs and some first instar nymphs while I'm at it!

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Babies! (pics.letsfail.com)
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Some kind of stink bug. No precise ID since the identification apps say the nymphs are a species that does not match the eggs at all.

Edit: Nezara viridula

 
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Old lady in bag jail (pics.letsfail.com)
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She goes into the Hell Bag for roughly 15 minutes a month, the time it takes to get her monthly Old Kitty Medicine (which comes as a jab).

She earned the Hell Bag (aka bathing bag) after requiring sedation and injuring her Human during the first home visit from the vet. Totally unrelated, but her teeth are in remarkably good, pointy, stabby condition for a 14 year old cat.

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