Location: Panjim, Goa
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Insects. Show all posts
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Jewel Beetle
Location: Panjim, Goa
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Funnel Web Spider
Shot at f/2.8
Shot at f/5.6
ID: Funnel Web Spider
Location: Talacauvery, Coorg
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Lady in Red
ID: Lady Bird (Exact Subspecies unknown. Help would be appreciated)
Location: Ramnagara, Karnataka
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM
Friday, September 24, 2010
Colony of Scorpions Eating Winged Termites
I had witnessed this behaviour on June 20th around 6 AM in the morning at Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Orissa at a place called Chaurasimal.
This was just after the first rains and there were winged termites coming from within the ground from various places.
But what struck us was that in a small area of around 6'x6' there were close to 25 scorpions catching the winged termites with around 5-6 caught by each. Some even had upto 8-9 in both claws (included). They would then go down holes in the soil and stock them. They would then come back for more.
I had never seen so many scorpions in one place leave aside catching prey like this in such a large scale. We saw the phenomenon for close to an hour or so.
Sharing a few images to show how it looked. Unfortunately I had left my wide angle lens back at the camp. Lesson learnt.
ID: Scorpions (Heterometrus swammerdami)
Location: Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Orissa
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM
This was just after the first rains and there were winged termites coming from within the ground from various places.
But what struck us was that in a small area of around 6'x6' there were close to 25 scorpions catching the winged termites with around 5-6 caught by each. Some even had upto 8-9 in both claws (included). They would then go down holes in the soil and stock them. They would then come back for more.
I had never seen so many scorpions in one place leave aside catching prey like this in such a large scale. We saw the phenomenon for close to an hour or so.
Sharing a few images to show how it looked. Unfortunately I had left my wide angle lens back at the camp. Lesson learnt.
ID: Scorpions (Heterometrus swammerdami)
Location: Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary, Orissa
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM
Friday, February 19, 2010
Cuckoo Wasps
ID: Cuckoo Wasp (Stilbum cyanurum)
Location: Bhubaneswar Outskirts
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM Lens
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Tawny Coster Scape
Standard processing in Lightroom 2.6 and borders added in Photoshop CS3. Fill Flash was used to highlight the subject and darken the background.
ID: Tawny Coster (Acraea violae)
Location: Bhubaneswar Outskirts
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM Lens
ID: Tawny Coster (Acraea violae)Location: Bhubaneswar Outskirts
Equipment: Canon EOS 1000D, Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM Lens
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Tawny Coster
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