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Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS

05/25/2004 12:02:54 PM · #1

This little fellow happened to come onto my porch the other day. Lucky for him! Mwahahaha

ursula

Fujifilm X-T2

05/25/2004 12:06:43 PM · #2

Bug eyes are so interesting! What a colour.

coolhar

Canon PowerShot Pro 90 IS

05/25/2004 12:27:56 PM · #3

Nice collection of cicada pics mags. I like 03 best. Could you please give details- f stop, shutter speed, iso and lens.

05/25/2004 12:29:54 PM · #4

what's also interesting is to realize that the 'pupil' is actually NOT a real pupil, but just pigment. It's part of his paintjob that makes him scarier to birds and predators. The eyes themselves are actually the thousands of compound eyes you can see in the first photo.

Also check out how his eye is 'dented' above the pupil.

:)

Originally posted by ursula:

Bug eyes are so interesting! What a colour.

Fujifilm XF 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8 R LM OIS

05/25/2004 12:34:02 PM · #5

Originally posted by coolhar:

Nice collection of cicada pics mags. I like 03 best. Could you please give details- f stop, shutter speed, iso and lens.

Thanks, coolhar :).

The first two shots were with the Canon 75-300 IS, including that macro you liked.

The last 3 are using the Canon 50mm compact macro lens, and a bounced 420 EX flash.

ursula

Fujifilm X-T2

05/25/2004 12:45:19 PM · #6

Originally posted by magnetic9999:

Also check out how his eye is 'dented' above the pupil.

:)

That's a bug that had a trafic accident.

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

05/25/2004 12:50:28 PM · #7

Found any blue eyed ones ? :)

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

05/25/2004 12:50:54 PM · #8

a lot of people don't know this but these bugs are actually threatened.

This is excerpted from a BBC Science article:

Urbanisation threat

Brood X might cut an imposing sight today, but their numbers are not as stable as they might seem.
The world has changed since they burrowed into the ground, 17 years ago, as freshly hatched nymphs.
While they were preparing for their month of glory, their habitats have been paved over by parking lots, enormous shopping malls and large tracts of homes.
Thousands of cicadas, entombed in concrete, will be unable to make it to the surface.
"The eastern US corridor is so developed that cicada habitats have been destroyed," Cole Gilbert, an entomologist from Cornell University, New York, told BBC News Online. "They need gigantic numbers to swamp their predators and survive."
Because periodical cicadas are slow and defenceless, they hit a real danger zone if their numbers fall below a critical minimum - whole populations can collapse.
"I don't want to be an alarmist," continued Professor Gilbert, "but at the edges, where the populations become smaller, they can die out."
He added: "It can happen. There was a brood called Brood XI in Connecticut and I think that one went extinct in the early 70s."

frisca

Nikon D70

05/25/2004 01:35:10 PM · #9

fascinating shots, mag. For a bug-phobe like me, a bit hard to go through, but amazing nonetheless. And I feel badly for them if they are endangered.

Brunosmad

05/25/2004 01:37:33 PM · #10

Originally posted by magnetic9999:

Nature is so tricky! It's like those bugs that look like leaves. Some of them even adapt so that they look like dead leaves, that way even herbivores won't eat them.

05/25/2004 01:38:14 PM · #11

see, that is interesting. for, i was squeamish and afraid of them, initially, but somehow, when i found out they were threatened populations, it sort of took away that fear and i felt more compassionate towards them.

it also made me a lot more grateful for the experience of seeing them.

Originally posted by frisca:

fascinating shots, mag. For a bug-phobe like me, a bit hard to go through, but amazing nonetheless. And I feel badly for them if they are endangered.

05/25/2004 01:40:24 PM · #12

Ahh yes, the old "leaf me alone" trick ;) ....

Originally posted by Brunosmad:

Nature is so tricky! It's like those bugs that look like leaves. Some of them even adapt so that they look like dead leaves, that way even herbivores won't eat them.

Tamron AF 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 XR Di LD Aspherical IF for Canon

05/25/2004 01:42:32 PM · #13

rofl --

it's a bug's life

Originally posted by ursula:

Originally posted by magnetic9999:

Also check out how his eye is 'dented' above the pupil.

:)

That's a bug that had a trafic accident.

sher

Canon EOS-300D Rebel

05/25/2004 01:46:58 PM · #14

those are great pics, mag! we don't get the 17 yr. brood X cicadas here. i guess they don't like the already WAY too hot weather. we do get the 13 yr. cicadas but they're not due again until the year 2011.

thanks for sharing your pics! :)