An aphid spewing offspring during last Sunday's collecting trip. Click to enlarge.
During last Sunday’s field biology collecting trip at the intersection of First and Windsor in Champaign I had opportunity to photograph the spittle bug shown above. As I focused I noticed the aphid pictured below.
Watching the birth of an aphid through a macro lens is pretty fascinating.
You just never know what you’ll encounter during a field photo session…
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Wonderful picture Dave! You were there at just the right time! Good work!
Nice title, Mr. Stone
We should be visiting on Thursday!
I think we need to make “I <3 Parthenogenesis" t-shirts.
Good idea!
What type equipment did you use to get this photo? I forgot to ask you at BugShot 2011 exactly what type of equipment you used. Thanks.
I use a Nikon D3100 (though most of my pictures were taken with my old D50) with a 60mm Nikkor macro lens and a 12 mm Kenko auto focusing extension tube. No external flash unit. Light weight and pretty bare bones, but it does the job most of the time.
Thanks a million Dave!
Talk about right place, right time!
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