Tuesday 23 June 2015

Frog Orchids and Black-striped Longhorn Beetles

Bee Orchid, Ophrys apifera var chlorantha
55mm, f-16 ring flash
On Sunday and Monday I spent time at a West Sussex meadow trying various camera and lens options while my Sigma macro is away. My targets were the 5 orchid species present on the site: Pyramidal, Common Spotted, Southern Marsh, Bee and Frog Orchids. There were plenty of Lepidoptera species: Marbled White, Dark Green Fritillary, Meadow Brown, Small Heath, Common Blue, Brown Plume, Cinerous Pearl, Satin Grass-veneer, Five-Spot Burnet and Yellow Shell. I also found male and female Black-striped Longhorn Beetles on Oxeye Daisies and a Dusky Cockroach.
Bee Orchid var chlorantha
55mm, f-11 ring flash 
55mm, f-16 ring flash
55mm, f-11 ring flash
55mm, f-22 ring flash
female Black-striped Longhorn Beetle, Stenurella melanura
300mm, f-22 ring flash
female Black-striped Longhorn Beetle
300mm, f-22 ring flash
male Black-striped Longhorn Beetle
55mm, f-16 ring flash
Brown Plume, Stenoptilia pterodactyla
55mm, f-11 ring flash
Cinerous Pearl, Anania fuscalis
300mm, f-22 ring flash
Common Gromwell, Lithospermum officinale
Canoon Powershot G9
Common Gromwell
300mm, f-22 ring flash
Common Spotted-orchid, Dactylorhiza fuchsii
52mm, f-36 ring flash
18mm, f-11 ring flash
300mm, f-11 ring flash
white form of Common Spotted-orchid
32mm, f-29 ring flash
38mm, f-11 ring flash
Common Valerian, Valeriana officinalis
55mm, f-11 ring flash
Dusky Cockroach, Ectobius lapponicus
300mm, f-22 ring flash
Five-Spot Burnets, Zygaena trifolii
35mm, f-11 ring flash
Frog Orchid, Dactylorhiza viridis
55mm, f-16 ring flash
55mm, f-16 ring flash
55mm, f-16 ring flash
55mm, f-11 ring flash
Labyrinth Spider in funnel web, Agelena labyrinthica
300mm, f-22 ring flash
mating Leaf beetles, Cryptocephalus species
55mm, f-16 ring flash
Marbled White, Melanargia galathea
55mm, f-22 ring flash
300mm, f-22 ring flash
300mm, f-22 ring flash
300mm, f-32 ring flash
300mm, f-32 ring flash
Meadow Brown, Maniola jurtina
300mm, f-22 ring flash
Pyramidal Orchid, Anacamptis pyramidalis
300mm, f-11 ring flash
Red Poppy, Papaver rhoeas
55mm, f-11 ring flash
Satin Grass-veneer, Crambus perlella f. warringtonellus
300mm, f-11 ring flash
Slender St John's-wort, Hypericum pulchrum
55mm, f-11 ring flash
Southern Marsh Orchid, Dactylorhiza praetamissa
55mm, f-11 ring flash
Yellow Shell, Camptogramma bilineata
55mm, f-11 ring flash
this is the usual view of this moth.

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