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She was so green


She was so green
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Copyright: Hendrik Boot (NINIX) Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 164 W: 48 N: 328] (2772)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-07
Categories: Insects
Camera: Konica Minolta Dimage Z2, GT Lens 1:2 8-3.7 APO, 38-380 mm
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-08-22 4:08
Viewed: 730
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
She was still so green, the great green bush-cricket(female tettigonia viridissima) (Wijfje Grote Groene Sabelsprinkhaan). I saw her in the Ardeche and it was love at first sight.

Tettigonia Linnaeus
Locusta auctt., non Linnaeus; Phasgonura Stephens.

Adults nocturnal and diurnal; 40–54 mm long; grass-green, with green eyes and a brown dorsal steak on the head, pronotum, and hind margins of the forewings.

The antennae long, with well over 30 segments. The pronotum not dorsally keeled. Forewings well developed; greatly exceeding the abdomen when folded. Hindwings fully developed. Forelegs conventional. Foreleg tarsi 4 segmented; mid-leg tarsi 4 segmented; hindleg tarsi 4 segmented. The hind femora smooth. The ovipositor relatively long, with the valves articulated along their length and forming a single structure; 18–24 mm long (slightly downcurved). The males stridulous. The sound production alary. Auditory organs located in the fore-tibiae.

British representation. 1 species. Tettigonia viridissima (Great Green grasshopper, Great Green Bush-cricket). Native. English Midlands, East Anglia, Wales, southeast England, central southern England, southwest England, Isle of Wight, and Channel Islands.

Widely omnivorous (feeding on grasses, shrubby and herbaceous dicots, and smaller insects); found outdoors in natural habitats (often associated with coarse vegetation on waste land, in warm sunny locations).

Classification. Suborder Ensifera; Superfamily Tettigonioidea; Tettigoniidae.

Comments. The first and second tarsal segments laterally grooved.

Sourche: http://delta-intkey.com/britin/ort/www/tettigon.htm
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  • Great 
  • TAZ Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2385 W: 50 N: 3186] (10922)
  • [2005-08-22 4:37]

What a beautiful cricket that you have well captured ! Composition, colors, details and sharpness are very good ! Thanks for sharing Hendrik.

  • Great 
  • Eko Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 187 W: 10 N: 38] (121)
  • [2005-08-22 8:38]

Hi Hendrik!
Wonderful shot.Lighting,POV,sharpness,BG(perfect effort) are beautiful.Excellent work,I liked very much.Thanks for posting.

  • Great 
  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2816 W: 75 N: 7976] (26969)
  • [2005-08-22 9:48]

Looks like immpressionistic paintings. Lovely light and BG Hendrik. Very nice composition with green lady and small fly on BG.

Your last photos are really great.
This one has superb colours and composition, the POV and lighting are perfect too.
I like the photo very much.
WELL DONE & TFS

Hello Hendrik, another great macro. Very nice capture with great colours/light and sharpness/dof. Very good composition.

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