Post your close encounters

This is a female pompilid spider-hunting wasp dragging a paralysed Palystes spider to a nest where she will lay an egg in the body. The living spider provides the food for the larval wasp.
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/members/pa...tes-spider.jpg

Interesting and good behavour shot.
Here many of the wasps do the same.
The Orange Potter hunt for caterpillars instead.
Once that the larva develop to a wasp, this wasps when adult remember where they born and will come back to build a nest in the same place.
For this reason if you do not like to have this wasps in your home, the nest have to be destroy as soon it is closed.

A close up detail of the head of the Common Paper Wasp

http://www.plottier.net/albums/userp...asp-detail.jpg

Come on!!! post some pics

I love macro shots. Here's a couple of mine.........

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/05/1158.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/05/1159.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/05/1160.jpg
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/05/1161.jpg


Cheers.

That Dragon portrait is great! Top shot mate.
Very nice images, thank for posting :)

Just a fly on the top of a lettuce leaf :)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/05/1089.jpg

Gecko, at Wanaaring
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/
Stick insect Woods Point
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...r/DSC06359.jpg

Baz.

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Originally Posted by Chucaro

Just a fly on the top of a lettuce leaf :)

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...10/05/1089.jpg

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This is a wonderful shot with beautiful colours what are you using for your macro?

Thank you Dullbird for your comments.
I am using the Nikon 70-300VR with the Nikon 6T diopter attached to the front of the telephoto lens.
This gives a very good magnification for close-up photography but not for macro :(
It is a very sharp setup, have a look at the head of the fly on the "Flying" competition thread that have just finished.