Can anyone?

Have your say on issues related to using a DSLR camera.

Moderator: Moderators

Forum rules
Please ensure that you have a meaningful location included in your profile. Please refer to the FAQ for details of what "meaningful" is.

Can anyone?

Postby Oneputt on Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:18 am

Identify this bug? About 30mm long.

Image
"The good thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing respectable"

D3 - http://www.oneputtphotographics.com
User avatar
Oneputt
Senior Member
 
Posts: 3174
Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:58 pm
Location: Stuck in traffic Maroochydore.

Postby petermmc on Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:44 am

A hairy cicada? A mutant dragonfly?

Peter Mc
Nikon & Olympus
User avatar
petermmc
Senior Member
 
Posts: 504
Joined: Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:24 pm
Location: Figtree, Wollongong

Postby leek on Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:51 am

If all else fails, try dropping Don Herbison-Evans a line at this website...

He's very helpful in identifying species like this...
Cheers, John
Leek@Flickr | Leek@RedBubble | Leek@DeviantArt

D700; D200; Tokina 12-24; Nikkor 50mm f1.4,18-70mm,85mm f1.8, 105mm,80-400VR, SB-800s; G1227LVL; RRS BH-55; Feisol 1401
User avatar
leek
Senior Member
 
Posts: 3135
Joined: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:46 pm
Location: Lane Cove, Sydney

Postby kipper on Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:02 am

Looks like it comes from the same family of the cicada.


A CICADA THAT HAS BEEN BITTEN BY A WEREWOLF.


kipper puts on CCWR - Bad Moon Rising
Darryl (aka Kipper)
Nikon D200
kipper
Senior Member
 
Posts: 3738
Joined: Thu Nov 04, 2004 9:23 pm
Location: Hampshire, UK

Postby petermmc on Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:13 am

I think you are on to something kipper. Both are creatures of the night and both "howl" in different ways.

kipper wrote:Looks like it comes from the same family of the cicada.


A CICADA THAT HAS BEEN BITTEN BY A WEREWOLF.


kipper puts on CCWR - Bad Moon Rising
Nikon & Olympus
User avatar
petermmc
Senior Member
 
Posts: 504
Joined: Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:24 pm
Location: Figtree, Wollongong

Postby Deano on Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:29 am

What ever it is, it needs to go on a diet. :lol:

Cheers
Dean
I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

D2x | Nikkor 24-120vr & 50/1.8 | Sigma 12-24 & 24-70/2.8 & 70-200/2.8 | SB800 | Velbon 640CF Tripod w/ Markins M10 & RRS plates.
And then there's my Bag Collection... Sweeet....
;-)
User avatar
Deano
Member
 
Posts: 319
Joined: Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:57 pm
Location: Canberra, Australia

Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:46 am

No idea.
But I don't think it's that cicada like, more like some over-weight moth.
User avatar
Alpha_7
Senior Member
 
Posts: 7259
Joined: Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:19 pm
Location: Mortdale - Sydney - Nikon D700, x-D200, Leica, G9

Postby PiroStitch on Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:56 am

Some sorta interspecies or inter-bug relationship going on there....
Hassy, Leica, Nikon, iPhone
Come follow the rabbit hole...
User avatar
PiroStitch
Senior Member
 
Posts: 4669
Joined: Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:08 am
Location: Hong Kong

Postby shakey on Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:05 pm

Photoshoppus buggeringaroundi
User avatar
shakey
Senior Member
 
Posts: 696
Joined: Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:24 pm
Location: Far South Coast NSW

Postby Oneputt on Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:39 pm

No Shakey - it is for real.
"The good thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing respectable"

D3 - http://www.oneputtphotographics.com
User avatar
Oneputt
Senior Member
 
Posts: 3174
Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:58 pm
Location: Stuck in traffic Maroochydore.

Postby Nnnnsic on Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:16 pm

A bumble leopard bug?
Producer & Editor @ GadgetGuy.com.au
Contributor for fine magazines such as PC Authority and Popular Science.
User avatar
Nnnnsic
I'm a jazz singer... so I know what I'm doing
 
Posts: 7770
Joined: Sun Aug 08, 2004 12:29 am
Location: Cubicle No. 42... somewhere in Bondi, NSW

Postby Killakoala on Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:30 am

Whatever it is it's ugly.

Surely we have an etymologist on this forum...somewhere.
Steve.
|D700| D2H | F5 | 70-200VR | 85 1.4 | 50 1.4 | 28-70 | 10.5 | 12-24 | SB800 |
Website-> http://www.stevekilburn.com
Leeds United for promotion in 2014 - Hurrah!!!
User avatar
Killakoala
Senior Member
 
Posts: 5398
Joined: Fri Aug 13, 2004 3:31 pm
Location: Southland NZ

Postby Oneputt on Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:36 am

Leek thankyou for putting me on to Don. It is a Bee Hawk Moth :D
"The good thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing respectable"

D3 - http://www.oneputtphotographics.com
User avatar
Oneputt
Senior Member
 
Posts: 3174
Joined: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:58 pm
Location: Stuck in traffic Maroochydore.

Postby leek on Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:54 am

Oneputt wrote:Leek thankyou for putting me on to Don. It is a Bee Hawk Moth :D



Hahaha... Now that is very very funny... It's exactly the same species that I asked Don to identify - except mine was still a caterpillar at the time...

Image

I bet you have gardenias in your garden...
Cheers, John
Leek@Flickr | Leek@RedBubble | Leek@DeviantArt

D700; D200; Tokina 12-24; Nikkor 50mm f1.4,18-70mm,85mm f1.8, 105mm,80-400VR, SB-800s; G1227LVL; RRS BH-55; Feisol 1401
User avatar
leek
Senior Member
 
Posts: 3135
Joined: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:46 pm
Location: Lane Cove, Sydney

Postby Alpha_7 on Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:01 pm

I think I like it better as a caterpilla.
User avatar
Alpha_7
Senior Member
 
Posts: 7259
Joined: Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:19 pm
Location: Mortdale - Sydney - Nikon D700, x-D200, Leica, G9

Postby ozimax on Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:16 pm

It's a yellow bellied/backed sap-sucker no doubt...
President, A.A.A.A.A (Australian Association Against Acronym Abuse)
Canon EOS R6, RF 24-105 F4, RF 70-200 F4, RF 35mm F1.8, RF 16mm F2.8
"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32)
User avatar
ozimax
Senior Member
 
Posts: 5289
Joined: Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:58 am
Location: Coffs Harbour, NSW


Return to General Discussion