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12-01-2008, 12:05 PM
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| | | Your best insect of 2007 Following on from your favourite insect pics, what was your best/rarest insect encountered in 2007?
Mine is this Bloxworth Snout which is a Red Data Book species(fairly rare), taken at light in August.
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12-01-2008, 02:15 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007 Mine wasn't as rare... but I've never seen it before. It was a Painted Lady which I filmed in my garden in September. | 
12-01-2008, 04:20 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007 I spent quite a lot of time on the Dorset heaths last summer which allowed me to see lots of interesting insects but I think the rarest one I saw was a Large Marsh Grasshopper which I think is also a red data book species.
Other rare insects last year were Narrow-bordered Bee Hawkmoths, a Striped Hawkmoth (in the garden!) and Marsh Fritillaries.
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12-01-2008, 04:44 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007 Two of the oddest shots I took last year both involved flies and dewdrops
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12-01-2008, 04:51 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007 Mine was probably the Silver-studded Blue butterfly(s) that "we" photographed at Thursley Common.
There were so many Dragons and Damsels to choose a favourite from.
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12-01-2008, 05:40 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007 Quote:
Originally Posted by Lord V Two of the oddest shots I took last year both involved flies and dewdrops  | Brian great images, I'm impressed.
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12-01-2008, 05:47 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007
I only got my camera at Xmas so I didn't have a photo in 07. But this is my first ever macro. The spider is very small but not bad for a first. I can only get better. The photo was taken in January 08. | 
12-01-2008, 07:23 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007 Spiders!! | 
12-01-2008, 07:39 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007 I'm with Guy on this one, my best insect of 2007 was without a doubt the Large Marsh Grasshopper, it was such a buzz to finally get to see and photograph one.
I found this one by the stream at Crockford Bridge in the New Forest, to get a good contrasting image of him we placed him on top of Nikon Nige's Bigma, not the most natural perch but photographing him moving through the Heather etc.. was proving impossible.
Coming a close second was the Goat Moth that we caught during our mothing session on Thursley Common as part of our WAB weekend. A fantastic looking, very large Moth that is quite rare, its certainly a species that we would never catch up here in the Midlands.
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12-01-2008, 08:06 PM
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| | | Re: Your best insect of 2007 Interesting to read everyone's favourites from last year.
My favourites were:
1. a moth - a Feathered Brindle, which visited my light trap and was the first recording of this Nb nationally scarce species where I live, according to the County Moth Recorder;
2. a butterfly - the Silver-spotted Skipper - which I saw for the first time in 2007;
3. another butterfly - the Grayling, which I also saw for the first time in 2007; and
4. a Hornet Robberfly (Asilus crabroniformis) - a huge fly that was too fast to photograph. This is also a nationally scarce species. |  | | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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