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Bees & Bugs

Native Drone Fly

As promised, here is a speckled-eyed Native Drone Fly. It makes a droning noise like a bee. It’s a type of hoverfly and I don’t recall photographing this one before now.

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Eristalinus punctulatus: Native Drone Fly

The pretty star-shaped flowers bloom on a succulent in my yard.

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The wing veining is beautiful.

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We have a Native Golden Drone Fly – with golden stripes instead of the grey.

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Those huge eyes are not particularly attractive!  Apparently some drone flies have striped eyes, instead of speckles.

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Images taken with the Nikon D3000, in guide mode.

Thanks for looking. Have a good day.  🙂

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Butterflies & Moths

Skipper Butterfly,and purple-tipped stamena

Using the Nikon D3000, on auto, but I set the lens on 55 mm.

 

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Yellow banded Dart, on mint blossom, by my back door.

 

Isn’t the mint blossom gorgeous with all those little purple tips on the stamena.

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Yellow-Banded Dart (a skipper butterfly)

 

Have good day.   🙂

 

 

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Butterflies & Moths

Grapevine Moth’s offspring

I saw a couple of these a few weeks back, but the sparrows or shield bugs got them before they grew much bigger.

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Taken with the Nokia Lumia 520.

I got myself a secondhand DSLR from eBay last week – for my birthday – a Nikon D3000. It came from a pawnshop place in regional Victoria and that might be why I was the only bidder.I had purchased from him before, a superficially damaged monitor which I got for its stand for $20.

At A$180, and free postage, it arrived on Friday with the standard 2009 kit zoom lens, a charger, battery, and a very well padded camera bag. When I checked the shutter count it was only 687, and I’d already taken at least 50+ practice pics myself! I have it on auto at the moment, and it has some sort of filter on the lens which I have to find out about.

I was actually keeping my eyes open for a cheap Nikon D5+anything, but I spotted this D3000 and only had 22 minutes to make up my mind. It has a great beginner’s guidance system and a motor lens cleanser! I think  I did well for my first DSLR. Now, I just have to learn to use all the bells and whistles.

Have a good day. 🙂

 

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