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Need adult female budwing. I bought 5 nymphs, all of them turned out to be males. I can trade some of the males if you need them. Also have a few sub adult ghost, D. dessicata and Stagmomantis limbata for trade.

d'oh, I am in need of a female budwing. Got any you want to sell?

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How'd you get it to stay still for 20 shots?

The aperture (f-stop) controls how much is in focus, not the focal length of the lens (mm). The 100mm is easier to use than the longer 180mm. I have the older 100mm, cheaper but still amazing for macro work. IS is not really important when doing macros and you will be manually focusing. But if...

Thanks for the tip, I'll keep that in mind when I intend to stack.

Yes, I use an off camera flash. For bugs in general I like to use ISO 200, 1/200, and usually don't go beyond f11, I don't like diffraction. The main purpose of my photography is to create art, I concentrate on composition and lighting. Mantids just happen to be one of my subjects. I like...

This would make a fabulous conversation piece, do it!

Ooops, my bad. I checked the exif and I actually used the 100mm macro at f/11. This guy was too big, didn't need the mp-e 65. The camera was parallel to the plane of this guy's head, so his whole head was in focus.

I'm using a T2i. You guys are correct, none of these images were stacked.

Correction, I actually used the 100mm macro.

My first adult! :) This guy is very skittish. Most mantis will just chill on your hand, but this guy kept trying to run, though never flew. I set him on a piece of wood, he found a crevice and hid inside. I wonder if this species is like this.

So cute, look at their big ol heads :lol:

Here's my boy! This was taken a few weeks ago, now I have 2 boys and 2 girls. I tried mating them, but they're all clueless.

Ok, I decided to take some more, had more time to set up these shots.

OMG, must have this! Are all of them clear or did you get some mutant?

I plan to keep them around until they turn into pupae, and maybe let the adult mosquito emerge inside a closed container. After that, I'm gonna have to kill them all.

Found these guys in a bucket of water. Been wanting to find some mosquito larvae so that I could take pics of them, and today, I finally did.

I never thought to use crane flies, doesn't seem like there's much meat on em.

People need to learn to chill.