Seems it was keeping the same place and pose (uncomfortable? ) for at least 15 seconds (time between two shots).
Both images hand held.
Model Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Date/time original 06.06.2007 13:49:58
Shutter speed value 1/160 s
Aperture value f/11
ISO speed ratings ISO 400
Focal length 100 mm
Model Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Date/time original 06.06.2007 13:50:13
Shutter speed value 1/200 s
Aperture value f/11
ISO speed ratings ISO 400
Focal length 100 mm
Spotted bug on the top of the grass
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Spotted bug on the top of the grass
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- Planapo
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Very interesting find, Nikola!
This looks like a beetle of the genus Clytra.
The larvae of C. quadripunctata that I am familiar with, live as myrmecophiles in the nests of Formica ants. They build a protective case that covers them (similarly like caddis fly larvae) but out of hardened faeces in which they can totally retreat and close the opening with their firm head capsule and thus are protected against ants attacking them.
The adult female beetle when laying eggs, assumes a very similar posture to the one that is shown on your photos. (Maybe you can remember if Formica ants where around when you were shooting these pics?).
The female already packs the egg into such a protective case made of hardened faeces which looks like a little fir cone and is dropped directly onto a Formica mound or amidsts ants and they will carry it into the nest.
--Betty
This looks like a beetle of the genus Clytra.
The larvae of C. quadripunctata that I am familiar with, live as myrmecophiles in the nests of Formica ants. They build a protective case that covers them (similarly like caddis fly larvae) but out of hardened faeces in which they can totally retreat and close the opening with their firm head capsule and thus are protected against ants attacking them.
The adult female beetle when laying eggs, assumes a very similar posture to the one that is shown on your photos. (Maybe you can remember if Formica ants where around when you were shooting these pics?).
The female already packs the egg into such a protective case made of hardened faeces which looks like a little fir cone and is dropped directly onto a Formica mound or amidsts ants and they will carry it into the nest.
--Betty
Maybe she hold her egg between her hind legs. There is something visible on the first shot. I posted a similar picture some times ago:
http://photomacrography1.net/forum/view ... ght=#13241
http://photomacrography1.net/forum/view ... ght=#13241
Péter
Thanks folks!
It was very educative. If I only knew those facts before. I should wait till the eggs appears.
Betty, I didn't see any ants around.
You should consider Croatia as your south place.
It was very educative. If I only knew those facts before. I should wait till the eggs appears.
Betty, I didn't see any ants around.
Yep! And just imagine all that biodiversity on a single small isle which measures only 2.73 square kilometers! You can easy walk around along the seashore, only 8 km!Planapo wrote:Very interesting find, Nikola!
--Betty
You should consider Croatia as your south place.
The meaning of beauty is in sharing with others.
P.S.
Noticing of my "a" and "the" and other grammar
errors are welcome.
P.S.
Noticing of my "a" and "the" and other grammar
errors are welcome.