Insects Photo Gallery by Paul Casper at pbase.com

Insects

Macro shots of a few Florida insects. Many of the insect identifications were provided by Eric Eaton, who is the principal editor of a new Kaufman insect field guide to be published in 6 months or so. See some of his comments on selected pictures for more information. Thanks Eric!!

Rambur's Forktail Damselfly	Worker Paper Wasp	Paper Wasp	Black Saddlebags Skimmer
Damsel Fly	Wasp Moth	Lily Pad Forktail, Male	Damsel Fly Chow Time
Damsel Fly	Flower Fly	'Trash' Bug	'Trash' Bug
Damsel Fly	Ladybird Beetle	Halloween Pennant Dragonfly	Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly
Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly	Shield Bug	Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly	Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly, Female
White Peacock Butterfly	White Peacock Butterfly	Dragonfly	Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly
Red Skimmer Dragonfly	Bee Fly		White Peacock Butterfly
Scarlet Skimmer Dragonfly, Male	Pair of Scoliid Wasps	Sleeping Bees	Bee Fly
Bee Fly	Spinybacked Orbweaver Spider	Millipede	Millipede
Oleander Aphids	Nymph of a bug...probably large Milkweed	Gulf Fritillary Butterfly	Gulf Fritillary Butterfly
Gulf Fritillary Butterfly	Gulf Fritillary - Stealth Mode!	Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly	Dern'ed if I know....
Some Kind of Wasp....I think	Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth	Scarlet-Bodied Wasp Moth
Ceranus Blue Gossamer-Winged Butterfly (male)	Eastern Pondhawk Dragonfly	Spined Stink Bug	Bella Moth
Housefly	Housefly	Scarlet Skimmer (female)	Scarlet Skimmer Dragonfly (male)
Spur-Throated Grasshopper	Jacob's and Jimmy's Bugs	Metaphid Jumping Spider	Metaphid Jumping Spider
Metaphid Jumping Spider	No Clue...found on the beach	Red-Banded Hairstreak Butterfly	Ceraunus Blue Butterfly
Grasshopper	Flower Fly or Syrphid	Common Buckeye Butterfly	Queen Butterfly
Wasp Moth	Viceroy Butterfly	20050926-8324p_web.jpg	Mantis
Another Mantis	20060109-0674p-web.jpg	20090528-0789.jpg	20090528-0809.jpg
20090528-0829.jpg	20100809-4497.jpg	20100809-4506.jpg

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Marie-Paule		18-Oct-2012 19:03
Impossible de choisir, elles sont toutes belles ! Bravo

Guest		27-Sep-2006 17:17
wonderful macro. Such good clarity and composition. My gallery's a long way off shots like this. voted... ian

Aviv Bovete		01-Jan-2006 22:10
Wonderful images and colors... you got my vote... ;-) Feel free to visit my galleries athttp://www.pbase.com/avivb

Guest		20-Jul-2005 23:53
Wonderful gallery. You are using your retirement well. Voted.

Guest		06-Jul-2005 07:31
I really enjoyed viewing all the great macro shots. Lighting is perfect and it's perfectly sharp... looking forward to see more!

Paul Casper		06-Mar-2005 17:43
Hi Mauricio, Thank you for your nice comments. No, I did not use flash in any of the insect photographs. They mostly were taken in late afternoon sunlight, with the aperture in the f/16-f/22 range, ISO 800 and slow shutter speed with tripod. Paul

Mauricio Andrade		04-Mar-2005 15:12
Hi Paul, very nice macro shots ! I would like to make a question. Do you use flash in these pictures ?

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