I’ve been practicing my macro shots again, and this butterfly posed beautifully…
Category Archives: Insects
Creepy crawlies and other creatures at Sinamatella Camp, Hwange National Park…
He stole my apple!
Ive never seen so many of these creatures in one place before!
Bee…
Wasp Moth…
I noticed these beautiful flowers, walking through the rain forest near the Victoria Falls, ( I was later told it was Tetradenia riparia http://www.plantzafrica.com/planttuv/tetradenripar.htm) and then saw this guy…and like the predators he intends scaring off, I thought he was a wasp.
Actually, he is a moth mimicking a wasp!
Euchromia formosa – I’m told
Butterflies…
Butterflies…
I’ve found the best way to capture butterflies is to focus on a flower they are visiting and wait…but sometimes they flit in and out so quickly I cant press the shutter fast enough!
When I came to edit my photos, I came across this one…(above) and I just love it. Sans butterflies! I’m thinking to use it as a birthday card or add one of those inspirational quotes!
Herewith the butterflies!
All these images were taken with my new Panasonic FX1000 in our garden in Fort Rixon
Butterfly…
Hummingbird Hawk Moth
It has a long complicated Latin name!
(SPHINGIIDAE/MACROGLOSSIDAE/Macroglossum trochilus)
But really hard to capture on a photo – I took hundreds to get these few..and I had no time to mess about with settings or anything – I hardly had time to press the shutter button before they were off again.
I didn’t notice they have a long proboscis until I transferred the photos off the camera.
Carpenter Bee…
As kids, we always called these creatures, bumble bees…
Now, Im told we don’t get bumble bees in Africa…only carpenter bees!!!
These pics were taken in a patch of Zinnia’s…in a place called Esigodini, (46km from Bulawayo…)
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