Bug-Off 2014

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This guy was hanging out in my yard this afternoon:

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Grape Leaf Skeletonizer Moth
The caterpillars eat grape leaves, but not the veins, thus the name.
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The scary underside of a garden spider
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Matt, those are two more nice ones. Love the detail in the moth photo.

After a very rainy weekend, I took a walk through a nearby park. There were surprisingly few things to photograph, I guess that's just the nature of a city park.

Here is a very cooperative dragonfly -- I couldn't fit it into the frame with my entire extension tube rig, and he sat still while I modified my lens setup to remove the tubes. I'm including a closeup of the head from one of the photos with the tubes.

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Here is a butterfly -- again very cooperative while I rearranged my lens setup.

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And just so this challenge is more complete, here is a fly. A Thai fly.

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These are great pictures. Kelly normally has quite the bug photos too.
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Andy, the first three of those pics aren't coming up for me.


The Locus Borer looks like a wingless wasp, but is a longhorn beetle. The larve chew up under the bark of black locust trees. The adults feast upon the pollen of goldenrod.
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The Red Legged locust (female pictured) is one of those swarming locusts that munch down on leafy green crops.
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Matt wrote:Andy, the first three of those pics aren't coming up for me.
Hi Matt. Not sure why, working for me on multiple computers.
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Coming up now. Nice set!
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male red legged locust
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Some sort of garden orb weaver
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