Anyone know what this insect is?

[bootymac]

I have the A40 too, and I wanna know how to take good shots with it

 

[bmacd]

that prick on your neck is your head!!!

-=bmacd=-

 

[LinuxIdiot]

Originally posted by: bmacd
that prick on your neck is your head!!!

-=bmacd=-

Gee what a funny quip. If you had not noticed Jeff7 has already aided in the identification.

 

[OffTopic1]

Snake Fly - Raphidia notata

It is a good bug, because its larvae eat other insects.

 

Wow, can you make em any blurrier?

 

[OffTopic1]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
Texan Snakefly (Agulla nixa) - closest match I can find in my Audubon Society field guide.
And I see you're in Texas too.
I'll scan the pic in the book and post it shortly.


Pic

Looks like that "stinger" thing is actually an ovipositor; and according to this book, it "preys on the young of many detrimental insects." Maybe the pinpricks you felt were just its tiny clawed feet gripping your neck? Or maybe it just thought that you were a detrimental insect.


Hmm, second look at the pic, no, maybe not. Try a Mantidfly. It's got the shorter abdoment, and the downturned head.

The Mantidfly shown only 4 legs with 2 grapler arms and the antenas are too short. Its look closer to the snakefly than anything else.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: LinuxIdiot
it finally found something that looks similar a Formosan Termite, however I have found no mention of the elongated head

It's definitely not a formosan termite.

 

[LinuxIdiot]

Originally posted by: werk

Originally posted by: LinuxIdiot
it finally found something that looks similar a Formosan Termite, however I have found no mention of the elongated head

It's definitely not a formosan termite.

Yea, weird thing was I was checking out some texas insect sites but never saw mention of a snake fly

oh well

 

[ismellsmoke]

It's tshi tshi fly ...the ONLY place you will ever find these is around a horse's ass.

 

[isekii]

it's a dead insect

 

[slydecix]

hold a magnifying glass in front of your camera lens... it's a cheap way to cut the focal distance for macro shots

 

[edro]

Yeah, teh Canon A40 can't take macro worth a sh|t!

 

[LinuxIdiot]

I never said it couldnt take a macro I said

I can not get it to focus really close for a pic

, but I suck at the picture taking I have had it for over a year and still do not know most of the features.

Edro13, what settings did you use to take those pictures in macro mode? I must be missing something because standing five feet away I can not get it close enough to read the barcode label on a mountain dew bottle

 

[0roo0roo]

macro = flower button

 

[LinuxIdiot]

Yea I understood the flower stood for macro, but what else determines how good the pic clarity is, exposure for instance what should that be set at? Iso? mine is exposure 1/1250 I believe and I just changed the ISO to 400 on a hunch. But

 

[vtqanh]

Originally posted by: edro13
Yeah, teh Canon A40 can't take macro worth a sh|t!

damn, those are nice pictures.

 

[OffTopic1]

Originally posted by: LinuxIdiot
Yea I understood the flower stood for macro, but what else determines how good the pic clarity is, exposure for instance what should that be set at? Iso? mine is exposure 1/1250 I believe and I just changed the ISO to 400 on a hunch. But

Depth of field is very short, therefor try slower shutter speed to increase fstop (try f22 or f16).
Also use a tripod, because a slight hand shake could take the object right out of focus due to shalow depth of field. And, at such a close distant hand shake also exacerbate much more than object that is farther away (work similar to how telephoto shake/blur is greater than wide angle).

 

[LinuxIdiot]

thans OT I will give this a try when I get a chance this week