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[Voidley]

I envy photos like that. I’ve recently been playing around with macro photography myself and you inspired me to share my attempts! There’s definitely room for improvement on my end, but I am using lens reversal to get these photos, not an actual macro lens and I was never expecting to get this much zoom out of the camera, so I'm still pretty happy with how they came out. These are both pinned specifies, but I want to try photographing some live subjects in the future.

 

Crematogaster queen alate (13 photo focus stack)

p.s. what species is this? Caught 9/1/23 in NY

 

Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen at ~3.5x magnification (14 photo focus stack)

 

Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen front angle (14 photo focus stack)

[The_Gaming-gate]

Went up to Gainesville and got some horrible pictures of a Psuedomyrmex, something I forgot the name for, a Tapinoma/Brachymyrmex worker, a red mite, Crematogaster, and a forest roach.

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Edited by The_Gaming-gate, April 2 2024 - 12:00 AM.

[ReignofRage]

Myrmecocystus christineae! These are the first color pictures of live workers and possibly the first pictures of live workers in general. This is a little-known species that is known from a small range in California and a single record in Nevada. They're in the M. pyramicus-group along side M. ewarti and M. pyramicus. M. christineae appears to be the smallest of the three when it comes to maximum worker size, with majors being around 3.5 mm.

 

Edited by ReignofRage, April 3 2024 - 8:11 PM.