Whats yellow and white and purple and hard to find

[tpe]

A Yellow spotted ladybird on a tulip?

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Or a phasmid?


Thanks for looking


tim

 

[Mainiac]

Great shots! :thumbup: #1 is my choice,, never seen a yellow ladybug before. But what the heck is that other bug? A phasmid you called it?

 

[digital flower]

Nice pictures of the fungus eating Halyzia sedecimguttata I like how it has purple pollen stuck to it. Mainiac I don't think this Ladybug is in the US.

The other insect, which you also did a wonderful job photographing, is known as a Stick Insect or Walking Stick.

 

[Passion4Film]

Wow, ewww. Your photos are great, though! I like #1.

 

[tpe]

Thanks Maniac, it just turned up on a blackberry bush that we took some leaves for the phasmid to eat.

Thats great to know what it is digital flower. Its a Danish one, and i beleive they are some of the earliest insects to appear after winter here.

thanks passion4film

Here is another one

with a 100% crop of its head, just because i was suprised how good the resolution was through a cheapo second hand kenko 2x teleconverter.

tim

 

[250Gimp]

Very nice TPE, I like how she has polen on her in #2, and #3. Were you using a macro lense with the tele converter? Very sharp pics either way.

 

[Ockie]

very nice close-ups!

 

[BoblyBill]

lol... #4 startled me... Here I am all happy looking a pretty little bug and then BAM!!!! LOL... 4 and 5 are of type a praying mantis right? It looks like one but then it doesn't. Never mind I see one of the other posts... a stick bug of sorts.