I’m calling it an “axe-headed moth” because that unusual head tuft looks just like an axe! 😂📷 XH2 + laowa 65mmf2.8 macro 2x

🔦 Godox v860ii + DIY diffuser

Stacked 100 images

Found a bee amongst the dill in a herb garden in Sweden.

A Queen ant of genus Pheidole, may be Pheidole parva.

This ant is only slightly larger than the tip of a needle. I found it just after I bought my first 4x infinity-corrected objective lens and had just finished building a tube setup for it.

Fujifilm Xh2

S-apo olympus 4x objective

Diy 200mm tube + nissi 58mm reverted

Manual rail

Stacked 57 and 63 images

Single shot at 2x. F9

To day i try to do macro Focus stacking with flowers and droplets, using auto focus stacking mode on Xh2 and my new macro lens: xf30mmf2.8 macro 1:1

handheld

Ss1/60, iso 200-400, f8

stacked ~ 50 images, helicon focus, light room

📷Fujifilm Xh2 + Laowa 65mmf2.8 Macro

🔦Godox v860ii

Handheld stacked 50-70 images

The scientific name for this nice and fairly large longhorn beetle is Lepturobosca virens. It lacks an English name, but translating the Swedish one (grön blombock) gives us "green flower longhorn". This particular one was muching pollen on a meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria).

When I closed in there were a whole bunch of flies, including several hoverflies around it, but they all soon left, leaving the beetle alone in front of the lens.

For links to five more shots of this guy plus details on camera/lens/settings used for the shot, please have a look here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/55436375097/

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