Crickets, Bugs, Butterflies and an Alien.
Continuing my summer macro photo round up – we start with what I think are a collection of Crickets.
I know this first one definitely is.
And I think these next 3 are of an early instar of some form of cricket. This is very tiny – about 3mm long.
Then onto a bug…a Planthopper
A close view of a butterfly.
And a caterpillar of some form – probably a sawfly.
Then onto the Unidetified Alien…I think it must be some form of nymph.
Any ideas please let me know.
This selection of macro photos were taken on a Canon 5D Mark IV using a Canon MPE-65mm 1-5x Macro Lens. Flash lit by a twin macro flash.
Hi
I’m very belatedly catching up with some of your lovely photos! In your post of Oct 1 2019 with the lovely Speckled Bush Cricket. I think a couple of the others are bugs, I’m no bug expert but the one with the red and white stripey antennae may be a nymph of Campyloneura virigula you can see its rostrum (the feeding tube), and the alien looks like it could be a nymph of the rather funky leafhopper Ledra aurita, the galleries at http://www.britishbugs.org.uk are always worth checking out if you think you may have a bug.
Hope that helps!