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"Screamin' Yellow Zonker"
"Screamin' Yellow Zonker"
MelonMusketeer


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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro
Lens: Nikon MF Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/2.8 AIS
Location: Muse, Florida
Date: Aug 15, 2007
Aperture: 5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 250
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Aug 15, 2007

Viewed: 568
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

A "Giant Spiney Legged Yellow Jacket Horse Fly Mosquito". It is a Florida bug, about 1 inch (25mm) long. Used close focus and 5.6 aperture to get DOF and to lose the background.
M F 55mm with 11MM extension ring. This is about 1/4 of the original, but I could not get much closer without the bug flying off. I have no idea what it is actually called, so I just made up the name from what it looks like.
8-18-07, Rotated and cropped some of the green off, uploaded the edited version to portfolio.
This was shot with all manual equipment and manual mode. Hand held.
That is grass in the background.
I found out later that it is a robber fly.

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08/19/2010 04:23:03 AM
I'm feeling kinda itchy just looking at the picture . . that is one mean looking bug !
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08/18/2010 11:46:51 PM
Cool looking. Doesn't look like the robberflies I've previously seen pics of. There are probably 15,000 variations of it, like any other bug.
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08/23/2009 11:08:04 PM
Where the heck is the thing's head!?
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02/25/2008 02:28:31 AM
Looks cute and fluffy ...... and downright evil!!! Great shot!
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09/02/2007 10:53:47 PM
Eeeeew. Gross bug but good shot.
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08/16/2007 09:41:59 PM
I can understand it's name. Every time I look at this I scream!
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08/16/2007 10:59:00 AM
Ohmy!!!!!! THIS is IMPRESSIVE!!!!! Ugly little fellow that one -- but photographed to PERFECTION! On a lovely blurred background.

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08/16/2007 09:29:46 AM
isnt florida wonderful...kool bug,and hi from the panhandle,love your works!(or play,lol)
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08/16/2007 07:48:07 AM
this would have to be one of the stranger looking insects eh? .. and its posture makes me think its preying on something even smaller than it is .. its body looks a bit like that of a baby bird .. without the legs and the head of course .. :)
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