Comments on: Wasp Week Day 6: Northern Paper Wasp http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2007/10/27/wasp-week-day-6-northern-paper-wasp/ Ranting and Raving Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:30:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Elliotte Rusty Harold http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2007/10/27/wasp-week-day-6-northern-paper-wasp/#comment-165544 Elliotte Rusty Harold Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:11:08 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2007/10/27/wasp-week-day-6-northern-paper-wasp/#comment-165544 It's a good idea. Possibly the next theme will be bees. Flies could be really interesting too. They're tough to ID, but I have some wonderful fly photos from some species that look as much like a housefly as Laetitia Casta looks like a chimpanzee. :-) Spiders are another possibility. Personally, roaches and ticks still disgust me; but that's just a gut reaction I should get over. Possibly if I started looking for these creatures, they might surprise me as much as the wasps, bees, and flies did. The common ones we find in our homes may well not be the only or the prettiest ones out there. However, smaller and faster insects such as flies do require better photography skills than I currently possess. I've seen fly pictures from other insect photographers such as <a href="http://www.stevenanz.com/Main_Directory/Plants_Animals/Invertebrates/Insects/index.htm" rel="nofollow">Steve Nanz</a> that are way beyond anything I can accomplish. One of my favorites of his is <a href="http://stevenanz.com/ridgewood/source/fly_0612.htm" rel="nofollow">this picture of a Robber Fly eating a beetle</a> he took at Ridgewood Reservoir. The fly was barely visible to the naked eye, and the beetle it's earting is about a third of its size. I am reading photo books and looking into new camera equipment. Maybe one day I'll be able to take pictures like this too. It’s a good idea. Possibly the next theme will be bees. Flies could be really interesting too. They’re tough to ID, but I have some wonderful fly photos from some species that look as much like a housefly as Laetitia Casta looks like a chimpanzee. :-) Spiders are another possibility. Personally, roaches and ticks still disgust me; but that’s just a gut reaction I should get over. Possibly if I started looking for these creatures, they might surprise me as much as the wasps, bees, and flies did. The common ones we find in our homes may well not be the only or the prettiest ones out there.

However, smaller and faster insects such as flies do require better photography skills than I currently possess. I’ve seen fly pictures from other insect photographers such as Steve Nanz that are way beyond anything I can accomplish. One of my favorites of his is this picture of a Robber Fly eating a beetle he took at Ridgewood Reservoir. The fly was barely visible to the naked eye, and the beetle it’s earting is about a third of its size. I am reading photo books and looking into new camera equipment. Maybe one day I’ll be able to take pictures like this too.

]]> By: bob http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2007/10/27/wasp-week-day-6-northern-paper-wasp/#comment-164877 bob Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:36:03 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/birding/2007/10/27/wasp-week-day-6-northern-paper-wasp/#comment-164877 I've really enjoyed this "theme" series of pics and commentary. I hope you do more of them on other "ignored" subjects. How about roaches, flies, or ticks? I’ve really enjoyed this “theme” series of pics and commentary. I hope you do more of them on other “ignored” subjects. How about roaches, flies, or ticks?

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