Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil - frontal, Heesch, Netherlands

The tiny (6mm) Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil. This is basically a black weevil with colorful pearl-like scales. As they age, they become increasingly dark as they lose more scales.

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Christine Young

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WHOA! This is spectacular! Posted 5 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
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  Bling beetle for sure! Posted 5 years ago

Paul Dirksen

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Great macro Ferdy, I guess he's as dead as a doornail ? Posted 5 years ago

Barry

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Amazing - very dramatic! Posted 5 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
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  Thank you, Barry, I'm all about drama. Posted 5 years ago

Ruth Spigelman

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Weevil chiaroscuro - Rembrandt would be impressed! A gorgeous and breathtaking portrait here with accompanying images. Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
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  Thanks so much, Ruth. I personally favor dramatic lighting (single source, diffused) over "scientific" perfectly even light from all directions as is often used in extreme macro.
  
  I wonder if you've heard of the work of Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk? If you enjoy the old dutch masters, she's the new one. Background in painting, turning into a photographer since 2016 only. And well...just look at it. Wow. Posted 5 years ago
2. 1. Ruth Spigelman
    
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    Ferdy, I finally had time to concentrate and appreciate your link last night. Thank you so much. I am in awe of Gemmy's mastery of light, her highly unique presentations. A truly artistic woman with pure poetry coursing through her veins. Posted 5 years ago
  2. 1. Ferdy Christant
      
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      Fully agree, I knew you'd like her work :) Posted 5 years ago

DR_M_Z

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"So the last resort is to kill the insect." Maybe better, but not really good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_spray Posted 5 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
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  This is a great suggestion for conventional macro photography, but will often still not work for this particular niche process I'm afraid to say :(
  
  There's two problems, by far the biggest being the time the entire process takes. A typical stack takes hours per subject, time in which the subject is heating up again. The secondary problem is that extreme macro requires extreme light sources, which only accelerate the subject heating up.
  
  This second problem is something some people don't realize and even with some stacking experience behind me now, still blows my mind. Take the absolute strongest light source you have, and you still need to bring it as close as almost touching the subject in order to see anything at all in the viewfinder.
  
  Thanks for thinking along! Posted 5 years ago

Pudding4brains

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I'm with Christine - spectacular macro's Ferdy! Last year I paid entrance fees to a museum to see this ;o) Posted 5 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
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  Those are some very kind words, thanks so much. It's hard to be satisfied with personal results in extreme macro as I take a lot of learning from a group on Facebook where they outclass me on so many levels. By comparison, this looks crap. But I also try to take the opposite comparison...it's been like 7 weeks only. Posted 5 years ago
2. 1. Pudding4brains
    
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    Do not sell yourself short Ferdy, this series is really sublime IMHO! Posted 5 years ago

englishindiangirl

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What a wonderful portrait of a fabulous insect. We just don’t see these details with our naked eyes. Thank you ! Posted 5 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
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  Thanks! Posted 5 years ago

The Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil

Polydrusus formosus is a species of ''broad-nosed weevils'' belonging to the family Curculionidae, subfamily Entiminae. This beetle is present in most of Europe and in Nearctic ecozone.

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Similar species: Beetles

Species identified by Ferdy Christant

By Ferdy Christant

Uploaded May 22, 2020. Captured May 7, 2020 22:30.

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NIKON D850
f/1.2
1/200s
ISO64
50mm

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