cornflower sipper

[Domenico Dodaro]

What colors! Amazing!

[FotoBlah]

Domenico beat me to it!

[Krista Marson]

wow, you got super close on these guys! They remind me of aphids. Are they similar pests??

[Adi]

Very cool macro. What lens r u using

[Walks @ 7]

WOW!!!!!

[Call me Joe]

⭐️

[kali]

@adi314 an old hanimex macro focusing manual zoom with extension tubes, it has mould growth inside it i noticed today... but it works better than using the extension tubes with the 50mm lens.

[kali]

@blueberry1222 bigger than aphids and no i dont think they are like aphids, those drill into the plant and suck the juices, these ones just sip

[PhotoCrazy]

Cool color, capture!!

[Barb]

stunning colour!

[Kazzy]

I love how you have framed this guy and the flower.

[belinda]

love how the purple fills the frame, great close up of the little fellow

[- Andrea -]

crazy colours in this shot... how amazing.

[kali]

@colorfade i grow cornflowers because they are shades of blue, i love blue flowers

[Krista Marson]

do they only go for the coneflowers specifically?

[kali]

@blueberry1222 no i have seen them other places, just a title!

[Krista Marson]

interesting. I wonder what other bugs that you have that we don't and vice-versa. We should do a bug series.

[kali]

id love to see your bugs , i have taken quite a few over the years of this project, , this summer hasn't been good for it, slugs are thriving but who wants a picture of those?

[Amrita]

Stunning colour Kali!

[Krista Marson]

@kali66 Slugs are cool. They remind me of Santa Cruz, Calif. I don't have any slugs here. What I have lots of is ants all the time. And some weird red bug in summer that I don't know what it is.