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crosswise breeding
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Copyright: Royanto FX (royanto) Silver Note Writer [C: 3 W: 0 N: 11] (384)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-03-14
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon PowerShot G7, Reverse Lens
Exposure: f/8, 1/80 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Coccinellidae [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-04-21 6:56
Viewed: 748
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Kingdom : Animalia
Phylum : Arthropoda
Class : Insecta
Order : Coleoptera
Superfamily : Cucujoidea
Family : Coccinellidae

Habitats Coccinellidae

Most coccinellids are beneficial to gardeners in general. In the Spring, you'd usually find a ladybug in a vegetable garden feeding on aphids. As in many insects, ladybugs in temperate regions enter diapause during the winter. Some species (e.g., Hippodamia convergens) gather into groups and move to higher land, such as a mountain, to enter diapause. Ladybugs are usually found where aphids or scale insects are, and they lay their eggs near their prey, to increase the likelihood the larvae will find the prey easily. Since aphids and scale insects occur nearly everywhere in the world, ladybugs are also cosmopolitan.
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Hi Royanto,
Interesting moment catched here!
I like the way you managed to compose this picture, with the couple of insects joined and hanging from the leave.
Very good your POV.
The only nit is that the subject is something soft in focus.
Well done and thanks for share it.
My best regards,
JM

Hello Royanto
Perfect moment to shoot,
Excellent compo and lighting,
Great plain BG, Welldone.

Regards
Fartash

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  • batu Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1062 W: 290 N: 3967] (13400)
  • [2007-04-21 9:42]

Hello Royanto,
a nice capture of the couple. Obviously several colour forms of the species exist, a phenomenon also known for several European Coccinellidae. Sharpness could be a bit higher. I consider, however, the small size of the beetles.
I would like to include your picture into my THEME on Coccinellidae. o.k.?
Best wishes, Peter

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