The Giant Whip Scorpion is an Arachnid, but is only distantly related to true Scorpions. It has neither a venomous sting or bite. It has 4 sets of legs, but the front legs have developed into extremely long, rotating antennae. The Vinageroon hunts arthropods including Crickets, Cockroaches and smaller Scorpions….
It’s difficult to discern what’s going on in the photo above, but by human standards it would be considered perverse and macabre. It appears that a female Ambush Bug has skewered a Honey Bee with her piercing mouth part after it landed on a Raspberry blossom for a take of…
Focus stacking is a powerful technique to achieve 100% depth of field through each plane of focus from the front to the back of the image. In a focus stack, the focus is incrementally moved forward by just a hair through a sequence of many shots. All of the images…
READ THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS POST HERE Field Insect Super Macro Photography Methods There are many ways to achieve super macro magnification for insect field work, but many have prohibitive disadvantages. Some are costly such as Canon’s remarkable MP-E 65mm lens. Others require highly specialized gear like enlarger lenses….
