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How To Shoot Cicadas | Wildlife Photography Field Guide | Summer Special | Insect Encounter | Closeup Photography

            

                    Cicadas are one of the most Spectacular Creature on earth, spends years underground came out once to breed and lives only 3-4 weeks .....

                   Summer is the best time for their mating and to lay eggs. They have unique and extraordinary life , extraordinary habits and behavior....

                    When we went to photograph them, we face some challenges. They were well Camouflaged, being coloured like tree bark and disruptively patterned to break up their outline. They fly rapidly to escape when they got disturbed.

Incredible Photo Opportunities

             There amazing and incredible moment to witness and capture and documentation.

Magical Emerging 

                         After spending a very long period of time in underground, they finally came out at Night , climb trees and started shedding their skin ,from a old nyph body emerge an adult one ...

                        

                         At this magical moment they look more marvelous. If you fire torch on their freshly emerged wings , you see such stunning iridescene.

All these Summer Cicadas emerging time can be count from late April through early May.

Singing Cicadas 

                

                   Cicadas sings loud buzzing song , we can heard it throughout the summer . This Songs is the Call from Male to Female , for Mating . An amazing fact , their volume can reach 80 - 100 decibel....

Mating Moment

                     When female Cicada receive Song call , she went  their and they make love . Its always so fascinating to witness such lovely bonding...

Insane Behavior

With Deep Observation and Creative thinking ,you can master your craft , when you spent your patience you got the gift you never expected...

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LANTANA CAMARA | UNLIMITED PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES | BEST FOR PRACTICING INSECT ENCOUNTER

Lantana Camara | Best Photo Opportunity | Best for All time Insect Encounter

                             Lantana Camara well known as Common Lantana is a species of flowering plant within the verbena family. Lantanas are quick growing and quick spreading Sherb . It's an Invasive species, undestroyed shurb , crowding out other native species and reducing biodiversity.  Learn more info... Wikipedia

                              Lantana have the  aromatic flower cluster consists a number of short flower stalks.  These flowers bloom round the year. Whatever the Season it's Smiles.....

   

    

It wellcomes so many beautiful insects , and give us the incredible photo opportunities.... Lantana is the best  for practicing Insect Encounter . 

➣ HEAVEN FOR BUTTERFLIES

                              As we already mentioned , lantana have the best bloom and  smiles round the year, so many Butterflies visits there. More like Common Mormon , Swallow tailed , Metallic cerulean, Monarch butterfly, Blue tiger butterfly , Skippers .... And many others....

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➣BEST FOR BEES 

                              Honey Bees wonder to gather honey . They visit thousands of flowers everyday . 

Lantan provide them much more they need.  Mostly The GIANT HONEY BEES visits. Grabbing Giant honey bees are often so risky and hard enough but while they are here its quite easier , because they are busy collecting nectar.....

➣MOTH

                             The most playful Humingbird Hawk Moth humming happily. All those beautiful blooms helps to freeze the hawk moth . Even a newbie photographer can get stunning shots.

➣ALSO AIDING OTHER INSECTS

    •CATTERPILLAR  

                                    Not just flowers but leafs are pretty much profitable. Caterpillars also found feeding Lantana leafs. 

     

   •WASPS and HORNETS

                 Wasps  and Hornets , they are also nectar lover and as they are parasiting insects and they need some caterpillar to lay eggs so they are the Lantana visitors. 

  Here we knew how Lantana is best to practice Insect Encounter and to grow .... There so many varieties of Mini Lantana Grafted plants available for  home and balcony gardens to wellcomes those Awesome Insects.......

                                           Happy Photography,

                                             All the Very bests...

BEST TIME TO SHOOT BUTTERFLIES | TRUE TIMING AND BEHAVIORS | GRAB YOUR FAVORITE

              Butterflies are one of the most Glamorous Creatures. So much pleasant and playful. Playful means they are much more unsteady and so why most of the time  it's hard to Grab them. But not always know, some of  the time they are more Captivating and give us the good photo opportunities... 

➪Morning Earlier

                 For any kind of Insects morning is the Best time. And for Butterflies it's really  helpful. Before having a furious flight they have sun ray bath in morning. They open their wings towards Sunlight. So why Morning is the Best time. 

➪While Sipping Nectar

              Most of the time Butterflies are so much busy and sipping flower nectars, and take enough time. And it could be all the day time. So spent time in garden and you will definitely found some moment of Sipping nectars and you will be proven Luck surely. 

➪During Mud Pudling

     

           Mud-pudling is one of the steady habits of Butterflies. And also it's so important for their healthy life. And there must be massive, you cought so many Butterflies together sitting and Pudling. 

➪EMERGING

              Witness the Emergence of a Butterfly is one of the most pleasing moment. It's magical and Memorable. To experience this incredible Transformation, from a pupa to Adult fully formed Butterfly, you need to study their lifestyle, know about their Host Plants, because each species have their unique hosts. and also about their distribution, location, season like stuff. And you will be happier than before.... 

➪ Mating Moment

                    Mating ❤ is a beautiful time. With all sense and capturing both male and female loving. But always remember not to Disturb them . As an insect Anthusiast you must shoot their activities with respectively and Carefully. 

➪Laying Eggs

               You need a good luck for this. But if you proven that much furtunate you can get incredible enocounter. 

➪Evening

               Even evening can be the best time. Some species are so much Clickable at golden hour. And some finished their daily work get tired  and  rest in bushes, and under the leaves. 

 

 

           And Finally , Well Wishes for you, ALL THE BEST...... 

Nest Makers | Insect Artisan ||

Nest, how much it can be artistic, attractive and unique. Insects, some artistic architecture those makes incredible nest or home. Tiny Artisans, see how they can be creative with tinest brain. It's so Awesome know. 

So here we go see some Artisan insect and their creative crafts. 

➪Carpenter Bee

             Carpenter Bees makes home so simply, they drill wood and make a safe and secure home inside. Outside it's seen a hole. But just look at the picture, there so many holes in wood and those different sizes, and designs is give it a wonder look. It's attractive, eye-catching... 

➪Paper Wasp

               Paper wasp are one of the social insect. Paper wasp are amazing artistic nest makers. They gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct their nest. And these are the Paper nest. Well built hive for larvas fertilization. Some nest are called umbrella nest. And just look that strong tied , that's fascinating... 

       There some species who make it more eye-catching. Round shaped , well roofed and waterproof. And those entrance are really lovely. 

➪Potter Wasp

                       Potter wasp are one of the most fabulous nest makers. They are mostly solitary ,, so they make their home alone. They building it like Pottery, so they known as Potter Wasp. It's a beautiful activity, they collect clay for it, choose perfect dust wet that make balls and bring it to the place where they settling. Safe Secure home for offsprings.  

Rama Warrier, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

➪Termite Temples

            Termites, the wood eaters, makes amazing Buildings like temple. They are Social insect and live in massive group, which is uncountable. They work hard champ soil, make it clay and construct big buildings. It's so tuff work, communication plays vital role here to make a great architecture. Well planned and  well finishing. Some how you can say the "Burz khalifa " is inspired by termites temple... 

 

Insect Transformation | Skin Moulting | Emerging Insect | Stage of Insect's Life | Getting their wings and Captivating Coloration | Changes in Appearance.

Insect Transformation, Skin Molting|Insect Emergence | Stage of Insect's Life | Getting their wings and Captivating Coloration|Changes in Appearance. 

    

Metamorphosis is  a biological process in Animal kingdom, where animal physically devlops , changes in body structure through cell growth and differentiation.

                   Insects undergo metamorphosis, which appear with a change in nutrition source and behavior.

Moulting is the shedding of the exoskeleton, insect shed their skin several times. It's necessary for  their growth of body. However , some insects has final molting,  they turn into a very unique form from their previous. These Transformation is extremely Incredible.

Insect Emergence

       It's so much phenomenal , witnessing any  Insects emerging is an incredible experience.It's shows their endurance and welcomes to a new life.

Lets see some models:

❏ Dragonflies and Damselflies

        Dragonflies/Damselflies spents all their nymph stage underwater, they are aquatic. But after the transformation ,all the adult were because Sky hunters. They got a slim and longer abdomen and two pairs of transparent wings to hover or hawk.they are quite same during larvae but when they emerge got spectacular Coloration each and every species have their own unique eye-catching Colouration.

❏  Butterflies and Moths

  

      The eating machine caterpillars of both moths and butterflies has most iconic life. They molted several time and when enough they transform into pupa, and later emerge full-grown adult, those are so spectacular colurful charming wings . They got a straw to suck  nectar from flowers . finally leaf chompers turn into sugar drunkers.

❏  cicadas:

           No one knows how hard Cicadas life is. They spent more than 17 years in underground. Their adult version is so much famous for their singing . They Produced loud music to call their lovemates. 

These Cicadas Transformation is so magical and so marvelous to witness. 

❏ Cranefly 

       The transformation of cranefly is not so popular and dramatic , but see how this tiny creature came out from his exoskeleton . Mostly others insect emerge through their back and like hanging but just see this Cranefly emerging upward. Isn't it surprising.

❏  Grashopers and Mantids

 

     

         Grasshoppers and Mantids like insects molt their such a Captivating way. They are the master of disguise, well Camouflaged, but while they takoff they looks more attractive.the transformation gift them wings to sail on the breeze.