My First Weevil

[NateS]

Nut and Acorn Weevil
Genus: Curculio

I've wanted to find a weevil for months now (since I started macro) and finally found one last night. He was skittish at first but warmed up to me eventually.

First image is a stack of about 4 images with a mix of CombineZP and manual stacking.

The rest are all a single image

Shot with D90, Tamron 180mm f3.5, 12mm kenko tube, kenko pro300 1.4tc, SB-600, mini-softbox. Magnification is about 1.8:1.

 

[Czar]

Those are amazing, i cant believe how sharp they are.

 

[Stormchase]

Great shots Nate! That stack came out nice. Good DOF.
I have yet to get a weevil. I have an own tree in the back yard and saw one but he jumped before I could shoot.

 

[Arkanjel Imaging]

Second image is sweet. That guy has a lot of texture.

Thats weird how his antennae start halfway down his beak.

 

[icassell]

Way cool! I'm not sure what it means to have a weevil warm up to you, though

 

[Derrel]

Outstanding! I had no idea what a weevil actually looked like. Cool bug!

 

[NateS]

Thanks everybody. Weevil's are interesting looking creatures for sure....you can probably see why I've been looking for one for awhile now.

 

[iamsneaky13]

first off great pictures, but i think images 1&3 might look better as portaits rather than landscape.

 

[NateS]

first off great pictures, but i think images 1&3 might look better as portaits rather than landscape.

Thanks for commenting. Interesting thought about 1 and 3....you might be right. I will have to go back and rotate them and see.