In this post, you'll see a bunch of macro photographs taken on this date, the 9th of April, but thirteen years ago, in ancient times when I used different types of lenses and a different camera.
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In this opening triptych, you can see a crab spider that just got out of its old exoskeleton. The name of the species is Thomisus onustus.
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Here you can see a small, fluffy seed caught by the sticky thread of the cobweb. I don't know which spider built it, but the aforementioned Thomisus onustus can be easily excluded. Crab spiders are well-camouflaged ambush predators. They don't build webs.
Here you can see the empty exoskeleton of another spider ...
... the Pisaura mirabilis. These spiders also hunt their prey without the web.
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In these three photographs, you can take a good look at a spider that builds typical spiral wheel-shaped webs. This is the Agalenatea redii, a species from the Araneidae family.
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Here you can see an orchid flower. This is the Tongue - Orchid (Serapias lingua). In the following shot ...
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... you can see the same flower in a slightly different light.
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This is the Anacamptis papilionacea, commonly known as the Pink Butterfly Orchid, and in the following photograph ...
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... you can see a portrait of the Anacamptis morio flower. This orchid is commonly known as the Green-winged orchid.
Here you can see a group of droplets, a sign that a short rain fell on that day.
In this photograph, two minuscule Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata ladybeetles are mating on the blade of grass.
This is the flower of the Geranium purpureum plant.
Here you can see the shoot of some herbaceous plant that I wasn't able to identify.
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In these two photographs, you can see the interesting young nymph of the Empusa pennata mantis.
This is a detail of a Spurge plant (Euphorbia). I can't tell you the exact species, but it's Spurge, that's for sure.
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In this last photograph, you can see the Coreus marginatus, a bug from the Coreidae family.
AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.
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Wow 🥰
This is 🔥🔥🔥
I love the shot!
Such a detailed one!
Can this plants survive here in Africa?
Thanks. 🙂 Glad you like the post. Some of these orchids grow naturally on the northern, Mediterranean coasts of Africa, which have plenty of similarities with the Mediterranean parts of Europe. For the others, I don't know. There are diverse habitats in Africa, it's a big and varied continent, so maybe in some places they can.
Ok
Thank you very much for the enlightenment @borjan.
I really appreciate.
The spider exoskeleton is impressive but what has stolen my heart is the mantis... I can just say wow.
🙂 Yes, that is one cool and beautiful species.
This was an amazing tour of the world of the small, the kinds of things that we so often pass, but a world full of wonders in small scale...
Yes 🙂 there is plenty to see in that world. And it's a relatively inexpensive way to travel. You can do it in your own garden or a meadow just outside the town. A one-time investment in a bit of equipment and you can travel for decades.
These are some incredible shots! Thanks for sharing them with us!
Thank you🙂Glad you like the post.
Beautiful macros @borjan.
Love the orchid flowers and the clear droplet.
The spiders are interesting. Great angles.
Thanks for sharing 😊
Have a great weekend!
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The Spider is a real alien! In principle, the Mantis is also not from this planet) Amazing macros!
You are obviously very talented at photography, I really like your photos, I think if I had to choose I would choose the photo with those splashes of water or dew.
The simple shapes of droplets often look like jewels. They are more or less the same but is always great to see one of those spheres.
Beautiful ladybugs, delicate water droplets, thanks for sharing.
Very amazing shot @borjan. So clear and fantastic. Thanks for sharing it for us. Blessing
I like vertical capture of the pink flower. It is not easy to approach and take spiders photos, it's great effort
Hello my dear friend @borjan, I'm happy to see so many macrophotography pictures that you showed today, and they all look so beautiful.
I'm most amazed and curious about spiders that are so dashing and I've never had them before, I'm a bit afraid of spiders, I'm afraid to approach them, afraid to be bitten by them, so when I found a spider I didn't dare to take a picture from close range, so the picture was taken. my spiders are often not detailed, but you managed to take the picture perfectly, it's a good and difficult job.
photography is very beautiful beautiful I really like your photography
thank you for sharing
it's a very clear macro image we see
@borjan this images are really awesome and I was looking at the fourth picture which happens to be a spider the face of it looks like a camera lol, lovely shots
wow I really like the photo is it using the best lens.
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