First Shoot in 2015

First shoot in 2015 with Nicky, Victor, David, Sagita, Andrew and Chris. Almost full house if Seawei could make it. Anyway, this trip was as usual, a 4 hours 100m shoot... we didn't get to venture deep enough as we like too.

#1 Moving retina of a Jumper

#2 A mixture of UV and flash shot.

#3 Ahaetulla Mycterizans

#4 Ahaetulla Mycterizans

#5 Closer view on it's eye

#6 Back-lit Ahaetulla Mycterizans

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#12 Mass orgy of  mating flies

 

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 #14 Ant mimic Sac spider

 #15 Animation of a back-lit slug extending it's eye

#16 Back-lit slug

#17 Golden tortoise Beetle

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#20 Wasp guarding bug eggs

#21

#22 Backlit

#23 Daddy long leg spider with egg sac

#24

#25 Cup moth caterpillar

#26 Whip spider

#27 Hammer head worm

#28 Schizomida with skinny tail

#29 Schizomida with fat tail

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#33 Linyphiid, Neriene macella with a nose!

#34

Thanks for viewing!

Personal favorite for 2014

Sharing some of my favorite for the year 2014. Not much new finds this year as i didn't get to travel much... all were taken in Singapore at night.

Many thanks to all my marco buddy for the companionship! Victor, Nicky, David, Chris, Andrew, James, Seawei, Sagita and many others.

UV Macro

#1 Net winged beetle larvae. One of the more interesting find this year courtesy of Chris Ang. A bunch of of net winged beetle larvae that glow under UV.

#2 Cup moth caterpillar. Love the 2 tone color under UV and the red specks on the leaf.

#3 Asian forest scorpion nest

Back lit 

#4 Cup moth Caterpillar.

#5 Juvenile Argiope

#6 Beautiful Lace bug.

#7 A common planthopper, but i love how the back light worked on this guy.

#8 Harvestman.

#9 Mating Derbidae

#10  Spittlebug

#11 Juvenile leaf insect

#12 Midge

#13 Fibre optic planthopper nymph

Moulting

#14 Cricket

#15 A common sighting but l like the shadows and lighting. Huntsman spider

#16 Planthopper

#17 Daddy long legs spider.

#18 Bag worm Moth

#19 Net wing beetle larva. Something very alien which i love..

#20 Lynx Spider. Love the legs!

Family

#21 Never get tired of shooting mama scorpion. Love how the mother's eyes peek through.

#22 Daddy long legs with babies under a leaf, throwing web trying to escape from me.

#23 Mother jumping spider with mini jumpers

#24 Wide-jawed Viciria jumping spider with eggs

#25 Freshly hatched stink bug

#26 Wolf spider

#27 Jumping spider with babies. Love how the babies seem to walk on a straight line with mummy supervising.

#28 Not exactly a family shot :) A pair of hatching lacewing larvae.

#29 Another jumper with babies shot.

Feeding Behavior

#30 Centipede eating centipede

#31 Ribbon worm feeding on a cricket

#32 Hydrometridae Water measurer with prey

#33 Long-Legged Velvet Mite (Leptus sp.) eating spider egg sac

#34 Not exactly feeding. :) Braconidae probably Notiospathius sp. laying egg

#35 Wandering spider with prey

#36 Huntsman spider with prey

#37 Scorpion eating stink bug

#38 Thread legged assassin Gardena Melinarthrum eating jumping spider

#39 Neanuridae eating Fungi?

#40 Ant farming palm aphids?

#41 Harvestman buddy scorpion meal

#42 Trap jaw ant with harvestman prey

#43 Ant milking Leafhopper nymph (Selenocephalinae)

#44 Wandering spider with cockoach prey

#45 Scorpion eating earwig

#46 Ribbon worm with snail prey

Portraits

#47 Tiger Beetle

#48 Black tarantula

#49 Harvestman

#50 Earless agamid lizards (Aphaniotis fusca)

#51 Pholcidae with spiderlings

#52 Fungus weevil

#53 Kiss me Snail

#54 Dewy Lynx

#55 Hyllus sp. jumping spider

#56 Amblypygi Sarax sp.

#57 Paralecanium expansum metallicum scale insect

#58 Rhipiceridae 

#59 Big-headed bark spider, Caerostris sp.

#60 Epeus jumping spider

#61 Curious Jumper

#62 Planthopper nymph

#63 Net winged beetle larvae

#64 Planthopper Nymph

#65 Boxer Mantis

#66 Ladybird spider Paraplectana sp.

#67 Stalk eye fly

#68 Lacewing

Animations

#69 Ribbon worm eating

#70 Bioluminescent fungi

#71 Retinal movement

Collage 

#72 Argiope laying eggs

#73 Ceratocanthidae

#74 Leaf beetle

Mating

#75 Spiny leaf beetle 

#76 Stink bug

#77 Signal Fly

That's all :) Hope you enjoyed them as much as i enjoyed shooting them :)