Incredible Insects and Invertebrates

Teasing

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Teasles are a photographer’s dream they are always sculptural as each plant grows and then dies back. Adding a hover fly for movement and contrast, picking its way over the last petals is a bonus. 1/250 sec @f/5.6 ISO 250, 200mm *EF70-1200mm f/4 L USM

  • Aperture: ƒ/5.6
  • Credit: Tony Hutchinson
  • Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
  • Taken: 3 August, 2023
  • Copyright: All rights reserved
  • Flash fired: no
  • Focal length: 200mm
  • ISO: 250
  • Shutter speed: 1/250s

Location: Gunnersbury Triangle

Date Taken: 2023-08-03

Camera: Canon EOS 7d mk2

Professional Photographer? no

Peacock Butterfly

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Peacock Butterfly ( Aglais io) apparently very common, but my first sighting in our garden, despite its clever camouflage. (Credit – Christine Sweeney)

  • Aperture: ƒ/2.8
  • Camera: iPhone 13 Pro
  • Taken: 20 July, 2023
  • Flash fired: no
  • Focal length: 9mm
  • ISO: 32
  • Shutter speed: 1/355s

Location: Duke Rd

Date Taken: 2023-07-20

Camera: iPhone 14

Age Group: over_16

Professional Photographer? no

BEE PARTY

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One of the joys volunteering at Chiswick House and Garden is being able to appreciate nature as the seasons change. Four bees enjoying the perfectly formed Allium flower head in summer was impossible to not capture. (Christine Sweeney).

  • Aperture: ƒ/1.5
  • Camera: iPhone 13 Pro
  • Taken: 11 July, 2023
  • Exposure bias: +1/256EV
  • Flash fired: no
  • Focal length: 5.7mm
  • ISO: 50
  • Shutter speed: 1/1553s

Location: Chiswick House & Garden - Kitchen Garden

Date Taken: 2023-07-11

Camera: iPhone 14

Age Group: over_16

Professional Photographer? no

Interesting Red Critter

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I was strolling around Dukes Meadows when I noticed some tree stumps and thought there may be some interesting insects in it to photograph. I came across this little red spider thing which I never even knew we had in Chiswick! I took this photo of it and was really happy with the sense of motion it conveyed.

  • Aperture: ƒ/1.8
  • Camera: SM-G980F
  • Taken: 15 July, 2023
  • Focal length: 5.4mm
  • ISO: 80
  • Shutter speed: 1/50s

Location: Dukes Meadows

Date Taken: 2023-07-13

Camera: Samsung Galaxy S22

Age Group: over_16

Professional Photographer? no

Aphid overdose.

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I wanted to take the photo of this ladybird and then the aphids intervened, squirming away to avoid being eaten, no wonder he/she was static, aphid overdose…… Can’t hold the camera as steadily as I would like , so I have to locate stationary subjects as far as possible, this ladybird was so full of aphids he/she could not move, so my ideal subject. (Credit: Joseph Roy Forshaw)

  • Aperture: ƒ/6.3
  • Camera: TG-5
  • Taken: 5 July, 2023
  • Flash fired: no
  • Focal length: 18mm
  • ISO: 500
  • Shutter speed: 1/50s

Location: Chertsey Road allotments

Date Taken: 2023-07-05

Camera: Olympus TG5

Age Group: over_16

Professional Photographer? no

NCIS Chiswick

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A green bottle fly is an innocuous and common fly, quite pretty in some senses but it does frequent academic papers concerned with forensic science. The development of its larvae and immature flies does indicate the age of a corpse’s demise.
Strange but true, so I look on them with some respect.

  • Aperture: ƒ/18
  • Camera: TG-5
  • Taken: 5 July, 2023
  • Flash fired: no
  • Focal length: 18mm
  • ISO: 500
  • Shutter speed: 1/250s

Location: Chertsey Road Allotments

Date Taken: 2023-07-05

Camera: TG5 Olympus

Age Group: over_16

Professional Photographer? no

Bee in Flight

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I always love watching bees at work so was super excited to catch one in flight about to land in a foxglove that was flowering outside Chiswick House Conservatory.  (Credit – Jan Prokop)

  • Aperture: ƒ/10
  • Camera: E-M1
  • Taken: 4 June, 2023
  • Flash fired: no
  • Focal length: 30mm
  • ISO: 200
  • Shutter speed: 1/500s

Location: Conservtory at Chiswick House Park

Date Taken: 2023-06-04

Camera: Olympus OM-D EM1

Age Group: over_16

Professional Photographer? no

Bee in flowers

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I wanted to capture this beautiful bee on this pretty flower.

By Lisa Mauro.  RUNNER_UP Incredible Insects & Invertebrates Category.

Location: Chiswick garden's

Date Taken: 2023-07-21

Camera: Android Samsung s21

Age Group: over_16

Professional Photographer? no