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Originally Posted by stevecn

got to get meself one of them lenes, but im to scared to ask how much it was, i better sit down 1st!

I was going to say it's not too bad at £380 but then I remembered that I bought mine three and a half years ago. Get yourself a medicinal brandy and then Google "Sigma 150mm macro". And don't forget that you'll want some decent flash equipment to get the best out of it for insects.

Originally Posted by stevecn

any good ones of the newt?

Not bad, this is probably the best one...



Dave P.

[stevecn]

Originally Posted by GuyF

Nice, a male to go with your female from the other day! Did you hear him singing?
Guy

can i ask you if this is a GGBC or a differnt one, i know it looks the same as the other GGBC i have in my photos, i just thought it also looked alittle differnt, if that makes any sence

also last month i spotted 2 groups of wasp spiders in locations about 2km away from eachother, then the next week i visited to take photos of them and they had all gone? why was this do you know. there must of been about 15 of them in about 4 bushes

[GuyF]

Originally Posted by stevecn

can i ask you if this is a GGBC or a differnt one, i know it looks the same as the other GGBC i have in my photos, i just thought it also looked alittle differnt, if that makes any sence

also last month i spotted 2 groups of wasp spiders in locations about 2km away from eachother, then the next week i visited to take photos of them and they had all gone? why was this do you know. there must of been about 15 of them in about 4 bushes

It is a Great Green Bush-cricket but it's a bit unusual - personally I've never seen one with yellow/brown legs, they're usually green as with the female that you photographed. I've seen some other photographs of these crickets with yellow legs, so I suppose it must just be a rare colour form unless anyone knows otherwise.
As for the Wasp Spiders, previously I've noticed that sometimes individuals abandon their web and set up in another location nearby but I don't know why they do this, possibly due to disturbance or because in their current location they're not catching many prey items. It may be worth thoroughly searching any areas of long grass near by to see if they've moved away from the places that you originally found them, but I'm not sure why they'd all suddenly disappear from a spot like this
Guy