Ant's prey and other wildnature macro etudes

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A dull, rainy November is a time to miss sunny summer days, a time to delve into old archives, a time to look back — and process the stuff during the long evenings ;) This summer I escaped the city to my summer spot just a few times, but brought back a lot of nice macro stuff, including flowers, fungi and insects. In this post I share my June encounters.

Тусклый дождливый ноябрь - время скучать о солнечных летних днях, время заглянуть в старые архивы, время поразглядывать фотографии - и обработать часть из них ;) этим летом я всего несколько раз сбегал из города на дачу, но привез обратно немало удачных макро- фото. Мне повезло и с грибами, и с насекомыми, хотя и не могу похвастать чем-то уникальным.


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An ant carrying his prey. I think I spent 20 mins at this spot (cause it was well-lit) - feeding myself to mosquitos, killing mosquitos in large amounts, and vice versa feeding the ants with said mosquitos corpses - which gave me an option to shoot ants carrying more and more nutritious protein stuff. 😂

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A new born froggie.

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A cocktail in lime-esque tones.

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The kingdom of lichens and fungi.

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Little snail teethering on the edge.

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Moss and lichen colonies on on old appletree trunk.

Someone's makeshift salivary houses. Some larvae made it, I bet.

I often fail taking dragonfly's captures. Dont know why. Bad luck or?.. anyway - have almost zero good captures, a small amount of mediocre ones and tonns of a stuff for trash-bin.

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This wasp was too quirky and did not want to spend even second on same spot -- all of the 20 captures I did, turned blurry. Pretty sadly! Dont know correct iD of anything else who it was.

location: Vyritza, Russia June 2025 natural light
camera/lens: Canon 5dm3 Sigma 150mm raw-conv

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We call the makers of the salivary houses Spittlebugs and they are larvae

Tnks a lot for your remark. Spittlebugs, o! I am adding this to my vocabulary. (uh, I suspect that Nature gifted more species with this know-how technology than this buggies only?)
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Насчет новорожденной лягушки я бы поспорил, вот если бы на фото был бы головастик, то тогда бы да))
Хотя возможно я просто придираюсь))

Свежерожденный головастик - это свежерожденный головастик, не так ли? была бы лягушка, так бы и сказали :) так что останусь при своем мнении, ты меня не убедил ;) карточки-то как, понравились?
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Beautiful macro shots from the summer. I love the flowers with the bees, always a cool site! Excellent work!
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My pleasure for sure. Almost any flower looks exciting via macro view - and even better with a few bees buzzing around. I think I have some !PIZZA left, and maybe !BEER as well.

This frog is jumping just like in a meme. The frog meme that jumps into the air and laughs. I hope you've seen it :) I'll look for it among the gifs here and add it as a comment if I can find it. Very cool photos btw, professional shots

nope, i didnt. would love to have a look.
oh and TNKS for a compliment and a visit.
glad you enjoyed these etudes. ☘️☘️☘️
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I managed to find it on Tiktok 😂


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