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Up Close with Nature: 2013
All about wildlife photography - insects, frogs, lizards, snakes.
2013 is coming to an end and as usual, I went through all my 2013 images and came out with this mosaic.
Again, created using Big Huge Labs' Mosaic Maker.
Only a couple of new lantern bug species for 2013, but lots of new reptiles and amphibian images. Definitely looking forward to photographing more snakes in 2014!
Since the bigger mosaic might not work, here's a smaller one:
Link to 1600 x 1600 mosaic.
Links to individual images can be found here:
1. Orange-necked Keelback IMG_0346 copy, 2. Huntsman Spider IMG_0049 copy, 3. Leaf Rolling Cricket IMG_0131 copy, 4. IMG_7144 copy longhorn beetle on rhino beetle, 5. Dragonfly Emergence IMG_0201 copy, 6. Lesser Stream Toad (Ingerophrynus parvus) IMG_0115 copy, 7. Trimeresurus (Popeia) fucata IMG_0090 copy, 8. Malayan Flying Frog (Rhacophorus prominanus) IMG_0003 copy, 9. IMG_6948 copy, 10. Norhayati's Flying Frog IMG_3480 copy, 11. IMG_8143 copy Xyleutes strix moth portrait, 12. IMG_8226 copy fishfly, Neochauliodes dispar, 13. Dusky Wolf Snake (Lycodon effraenis) IMG_3361 copy, 14. IMG_9635 copy, 15. Pyrops oculata & Frilly Gecko IMG_2831 copy, 16. IMG_9668 copy, 17. Harlequin Tree Frog (Rhacophorus pardalis) IMG_2696 stk copy, 18. Norhayati's Flying Frog - Rhacophorus norhayatii IMG_2585 horizontal copy, 19. Stick insect (Calvisia punctulata?) IMG_0973 copy, 20. Trilobite beetle - Duliticola sp. IMG_1589 copy, 21. Hunstman spider - Heteropoda lunula IMG_1924 copy, 22. Mossy Tree Frog (Philautus macroscelis) IMG_1350 stk copy, 23. IMG_7575 merged copy Buprestidae - Chrysochroa castelnaudi, 24. Pyrops heringi IMG_0926 crop copy, 25. IMG_9963 (2) copy Wallace's Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus), 26. IMG_0121 copy Bell's Anglehead Lizard (Gonocephalus belli), 27. Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) R0022368 copy, 28. IMG_9843 merged copy Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko), 29. IMG_9685 copy Acanthosaura cf. crucigera lizard, 30. Lantern bug - Pyrops karenia (IMG_9563 copy), 31. IMG_9767 copy, 32. IMG_8899 merged copy, 33. IMG_8811 copy Cyphalonotus sp. spider, 34. IMG_8967 copy pink headed reed snake, Calamaria schlegeli, 35. IMG_8906 copy Heteropoda davidbowie, 36. IMG_7907 stk copy Gonocephalus grandis, great anglehead lizard
Full flash macro shot with an MP-E65, Canon MT-24EX Macro Twin Lite Flash, and Concave Diffuser.
Natural light macro shot with a 150mm F2.8 (with or without a 1.4x teleconverter).
Should you like to check out any images in the mosaic above, just use the links below. For example, if you want to find out more or view bigger image of the Pit Viper, a quick count will tell you that it's image #7. You can then click on #7 above and that will take you to that Pit Viper image in my Flickr Stream.
You can check out my 2012 Fave Macro here.
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Sunday, October 13, 2013
Cockroaches are insects of the order Blattaria or Blattodea, of which about 30 species out of 4,500 total are associated with human habitats. About four species are well known as pests. (Source: Wikipedia)
So only 30 species out of 4,500 are associated with human habitats, and out of the 30 species, only 4 of them are pests! Just because of these four pest species, there's really no reason to hate the rest of the outdoor cockroaches!
Just see for yourself how cool and beautiful some bush cockroaches are!
Really cool cockroach, female Catara rugosicollis. Gunung Gading, Sarawak.
A different specimen, also a female Catara rugosicollis. ID credit: Stefan Phalagorn. Selangor, Malaysia.
From Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo). Catara minor. ID credit: Stefan Phalagorn
Big cockroach, taken at 1:1 on crop sensor. Mature male Catara rugosicollis. Pahang. ID credit: Stefan Phalagorn.
Another big one, also taken at 1:1 on crop sensor. Selangor.
Morphna dotata (Walker, 1869). - ID credit: Stefan Phalagorn
Giant cockroach, Corydiidae, Ergaula sp. Kuala Lumpur.
Male Ergaula sp. roach. Selangor, Malaysia.
Trophobiosis between lantern bug and cockroach. The lantern bugs are Pyrops cultellatus yoshiakii Nagai & Porion, 2002. The roach is Dorylaea sp., possibly D. heinzei
More exotic lantern bugs here.
Good looking one. Pahang. Unidentified
Really cool pill roach. Petaling Jaya. Perisphaerus sp.
Metallic Pill Cockroach, Perisphaerus sp.
A molting cockroach. Kuala Lumpur.
Another newly molted cockroach. Dorylaea sp. Malaysia.
Another colorful roach, Sundablatta sexpunctata. ID credit: Psarus. Selangor, Malaysia.
Cristian Caballes Lucañas: perhaps a nymph of Rhabdoblatta (Blaberidae:Epilamprinae) depending on the locality. Semi aquatic roaches. Pahang, Malaysia
This one was slightly bigger. Pahang, Malaysia.
Also a semi aquatic roach? Selangor.
Gotta love the marking on this one. Allacta diagrammatica. Kuala Lumpur.
Another cute little one. Kuala Lumpur.
Petaling Jaya. Pseudophyllodromia sp.
This one was feeding one some decaying seed? Pseudophyllodromia sp.
Feeding on pollen(?). Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur. Hemithyrsocera histrio?
Hemithyrsocera vittata. Kuala Lumpur.
This one had many babies underneath. Penang.
One of the babies.
Not sure whose ootheca. Selangor.
Unidentified roach. Selangor, Malaysia.
A male roach trying to impress a female, I think. Epilamprine or near. Selangor, Malaysia.
A mating pair of roaches.
More bug porn here.
Another unidentified one. Selangor, Malaysia.
Paranauphoeta lyrata - ID credit: Invertebrate Dude, Selangor, Malaysia.
A house centipede with roach prey. Selangor, Malaysia.
Newly molted roach, ID?
Allacta  sp. roach, Thailand
Archiblatta sp. roach with ootheca. Malaysia.
Orange colored roach, no ID.
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