A Beautiful Orange Wasp

mostly.nature (59) in macrophotography • 7 years ago

Last night, I found this beautiful orange wasp with it's contrasting electric blue eyes. It belongs to the family Ichneumonidae which are parisitoids of caterpillars. This one appears to be a male as it has no obvious ovipositor.

The photos below were taken with a Canon 7D and Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro lens.
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Here he is staring right into my camera.

This lateral view show how it has it's metasoma (posteria end) is raised into the air. It is likely releasing pheremones to call any females that are in the area.

This last shot gives a better idea of the length of it's antennae.

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_{A Small But Beautiful Icheumon Wasp}	_{Rove Beetles}

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7 years ago by mostly.nature (59)

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caracasfrases (55) · 7 years ago

wow really nice post and photos are amazing. Congrats

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mostly.nature (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks very much.

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sandipmondal (52) · 7 years ago

beautiful snaps ....
background editing is also fabulous...

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mostly.nature (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks. The backgrounds are not edited. The second shot looks like it is but it just sitting on some perspex which is relfecting some old wood.

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shieha (70) · 7 years ago

Wow, that's a really cool looking insect, nice profile shot!

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mostly.nature (59) · 7 years ago

Thanks. You may have noticed I love insects :-)

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