What's worse than bugs?? NO bugs, in my humble opinion! What's happening where YOU live this summer? Here in sunny Southern Ontario , I am worried sick as I am seeing VERY few bugs this year. Almost no honeybees or bumblebees. Precious few wasps or hornets . Maybe three or four big butterflies- one Monarch, a couple of Tiger Swallowtails and a Mourning Clock or two in the early spring. There WERE quite a few little Hairstreaks :-) And I think I have seen about three Damselflies and one Dragonfly. What's going on, folks? What has happened? Is it the cold winter we had last year? Is it something in the air? I do NOT like this!!! I have only seen about three Cabbage White butterflies, for heaven's sake!! I call that NO cabbage butterflies! What' up???
I have my marvellous new camera and a stellar Macro lens- I am getting LOTS of lovely flower closeups and macros. I was so excited to try to capture some cool bugs with my new equipment. But..... :-( VERY few have been around so here are a few of my attempts. I have just not gotten good at BUGSES, coz I can't find enough to practise on.
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| My one and only dragonfly, not well focussed! Shooting from a distance into the setting sun is NOT recommended! |
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| THE only Cabbage White- away too quick for me . I barely caught him(her?) |
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| A bug who shall remain nameless on a coneflower petal. |
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| This pair is overexposed. I am illustrating a point! |
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| One of VERY few honeybees I have seen |
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| Another little fellow I cannot ID- on a Matricaria bloom |
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| Something bee-ish! |
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| NO shortage of spiders |
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| Same chap- or lady! |
You see how bad these are. Practice is a WONDERFUL thing. An old maths teacher of mine used to say, "practice saves milking time!"
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| This guy is a little better. There is no shortage of these leggetty beasties either this summer. They are ubiquitous. |
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| Besma Quercivoraria- he's a caterpillar and he is VERY cool! |
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| A lovely little Hairstreak - minus his tails- on a Rudbeckia |
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| And a little Skipper also enjoying the Rudbeckia |
Well, there you have it folks! Not many bugs and not very wonderful pictures. I DO hope to get better with practice! I just need the CHANCE to practice! When I grow up, I want to be Frank Jacobs- a Belgian photographer ( check him out on Flickr- especially his Dragonflies and Damselflies!!) His work is amazing!
What I am REALLY saying is BRING BACK OUR BUGSES! We NEED them! I am going to have to hand pollinate some flowers in our garden this year. It is VERY scary! Tomorrow, I shall post this to the
needleandthreadnetwork.blogspot.com despite there being not a single stitch of needlework in this post. Hope you enjoy everyone's posts. I hope I can make a link again! Anyone else having trouble??
