Post your close encounters

**Panya** · 2nd May 2010, 04:11 PM

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.

**Chucaro** · 2nd May 2010, 04:23 PM

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.

**Chucaro** · 4th May 2010, 10:12 AM

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

**Chucaro** · 9th May 2010, 07:54 PM

Come on!!! post some pics

**zuno555** · 9th May 2010, 10:00 PM

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

Cheers.

**Chucaro** · 10th May 2010, 06:41 AM

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

**Chucaro** · 10th May 2010, 06:20 PM

Just a fly on the top of a lettuce leaf

**Redback** · 11th May 2010, 06:44 PM

Gecko, at Wanaaring

Stick insect Woods Point

Baz.

**dullbird** · 11th May 2010, 06:47 PM

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Just a fly on the top of a lettuce leaf

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

**Chucaro** · 11th May 2010, 06:55 PM

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.

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