Monday, September 13, 2010

Cotton Harlequin Beetles

I've shown photos of Cotton Harlequin Beetles before here but I found some really nice looking examples of male beetles on Saturday, so here's a few more.

I took dozens of photos but there's a pretty low success rate when you're trying to do macro photography without a macro lens - it wreaks havoc with your autofocus.

Cotton Harlequin 4

Cotton Harlequin 3

Cotton Harlequin

Cotton Harlequin Beetle

The female beetles, which are larger and orange, weren't looking as spectacular this time around. Must be the wrong time of the year for them.

4 comments:

  1. they are so cute! they look cartoonish! What kind of camera do you use? I just bought a dslr and I'm going crazy with the autofocus when trying to take a macro shot. Le grr!

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