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    Jenkins Photography

    Hah, there's interesting wildlife and there's interesting wildlife :)
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    What is this flying insect?

    Haha. Probably full of proteins :)
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    What is this flying insect?

    Yes, it does appear as if that species exists in (southern) places in Sweden. It seems it is poorly known exactly what places it inhabits, and it is listed as endangered. I should have known :p All sorts of funny things happen in the south. 'Earth crawfish' is a nickname. Much more suitable than...
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    What is this flying insect?

    Yes, certainly a member of Gryllotalpa, since they seem to be the only ones with those 'mole'-like forelegs. Thanks! Never seen anything even remotely like it before. To me it looks like a cross between a locust and a crawfish. 'Spends most of their life underground, but are capable fliers'...
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    What is this flying insect?

    It was night out, so the picture isn't the best, but the thing looks sure looks weird. Loc: India
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    Testing some new lenses

    Very nice. I was pondering how you could have gotten so much light into the seal photo, while obviously keeping the shutter time so very short, when I realized the seal looked a bit..metal-ish :D But really, the other subjects must have been in quite a bit of motion too, hm, what ISOs did you...
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    Question for Photography Buffs

    First revision without what appears to be jpeg compression artifacts Nerri, and I like your contribution, very dramatic :)
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    How do you call this bug?

    There is of course mimicry, especially in the insect world, but whether these mimic something else or not I don't know.
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    Feeder roach trouble

    Pulling the legs or elsewise crippling each roach before dropping them in the tanks sounds a bit tedious, as well as cruel(even if the roaches are stupid as bricks). Lateralis should work well, I think? Don't have any personal experience with them , but they neither climb nor burrow (unlike...
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    Louisville Zoo...

    Nice pictures. Tele lens? Handheld? On-board flash? If so, dimmed/muted?
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    A. Braunshauseni on its last leg?

    It doesn't look particularly haggard for an ultimate male. Provide for him as you have so far, if there's not a needy female somewhere : )
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    Florida - February 2008

    Good tele lens any? Nice pictures!
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    Empty 10gal tank

    Etown: True, of course : ) Well, people stuff big spiders in small terrariums and spiders survive and owners don't have the slightest touch of claustrophobia and round and round and round it goes.. And everyone likes L.parahybana too, it seems. I had one; from sub-adult 'till adult. It dug...
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    Empty 10gal tank

    10 gallon for an L.parahybana? Maybe it wouldn't feel cramped (and maybe it would), but you certainly would anytime you looked at it.
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    General Photography Thread

    Nice phots Scott. Power(s)court; right outside of Dublin: (I have to get my own image-hosting service. Photobucket is wretched (myspace design, manipulates images on its own high and low..alas, it seems to be the best free option) I haven't touched the image saturation, and set it to...
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    New Camera

    I don't know; all I've learned from spending some time with a camera is to look for attractive scenes everywhere. This habit is mostly just annoying when I don't bring my camera on a walk, because I like to think when I walk, not 'auto-compose scenes' :p
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    General Photography Thread

    Connection at Gardemoen Airport, Oslo; turbulence aplenty.. (Forced to resize quite heavily and clumsily because - it might just be my imagination - but doesn't Photobucket seem to 'fix' some pictures when you upload them? I mean in terms of colors and brightness. I used to like that site, but...
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    General Photography Thread

    Sarah: Really good macros. Some compacts are very good at macros by default, but it takes someone with an eye for photography to get pictures like that :) You do use flash, I suppose? The camera's flash? The depth of focus isn't terribly shallow, and the pictures aren't very dark, but still...
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    Questio about shipping options - keep critters longer in shipping box or risk exposing them to cold?

    Thanks for your reply. Heatpacks of anykind are just a rumour herearound, unfortunately. Sub zero Celcius degrees in the target area do not reassure me however. If placed in such conditions, the box would get too cold in maybe 6-7 minutes, I think. And invertebrates perish quickly in the...
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    Polyphaga and reproduction

    Well, after a year or so of keeping a species of Polyphaga (origin: Armenia), and having tried different things to get the ootheca to hatch successfully, including trying different amounts of humidity/periodical wetness, different rations of sand/peat/compost, different foods, and different...
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