Winged Reproductive Termite, Zootermopsis angusticollis

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Winged Reproductive Termite, Zootermopsis angusticollis

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This time of year I will sometimes see winged adult reproductive termites fluttering around at dusk.
I'm pretty sure this species is Zootermopsis angusticollis, the Pacific Dampwood Termite.

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Post by Adrian »

amazing. your photos are so well done, how do you collect all your bugs? do you put them in a jar or something? i couldnt bare to do that >.< haha

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Stacking is amazing....Great image here.
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Beautiful. Not much more to say, this is perfect. I need to work a bit the HF when I get time.
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It's a brilliant image!!!!! Very nice colour combination!

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Post by beetleman »

Super Stack Charles. I love the side profile view and everything is razor sharp as usual. The antennae and palps are fantastic :shock:
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Post by Planapo »

Good Lord! This one is magnificent, hadn´t seen it till now, but it´s worth bringing it up on the first ranks again, ´cos that´s where it belongs, IMO!

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excellent shot here :D

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Post by jmlphoto »

thats got to be one of the best macros i have ever seen. incredible the only tiny tiny thing is around the hair on the upper leg but that doesnt even matter compared to how good it is.
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Awesome Charlie :smt023 As usual, one cannot beat the details of your images, really great work. :D

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WOW!!! :shock:
Your stack is great, but the really cool thing is the white diffuser (dome).
Pleeease, show us a picture of your set up... :D :D :D

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Post by Charles Krebs »

Thanks all!

Raul... there are a couple shots showing some of my set-up here:
http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/v ... php?t=2825
I normally use a Lumedyme flash with two flash heads on small boom arms instead of the small Nikon units pictured here (it was getting repaired at the time)

Jordan... yup. I missed that one stacking artifact. After you mentioned it that's all I could see #-o ... so now it's gone! :wink:

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Re: Winged Reproductive Termite, Zootermopsis angusticollis

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Charles Krebs wrote:This time of year I will sometimes see winged adult reproductive termites fluttering around at dusk.
I'm pretty sure this species is Zootermopsis angusticollis, the Pacific Dampwood Termite treatment cost.

Nikon D200. Canon 35/2.8 photomacrography lens. 28 image stack using Helicon Focus
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Hi,
I never saw a termite from these much close. Thanks for sharing these.....

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Post by grgh »

incredible the only tiny tiny thing is around the hair on the upper leg.
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Charles can you highlight this tiny thing, I might be 75 and I guess my eyes are getting weak, but i cannot see this?.

Lovely shot which ever way i look at it.
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Post by rjlittlefield »

OK, this may be a new record for bumping old posts.

Prior to edward137's comment, the thread was over 10 years old -- previous last post was Sept 13, 2007.

grgh, I think you missed the fact that Charles replied to Jordan as follows:
Jordan... yup. I missed that one stacking artifact. After you mentioned it that's all I could see #-o ... so now it's gone! :wink:
In other words, there's not supposed to be anything to see now -- the image has been edited to fix the problem!

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