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Dog-day Cicada


Dog-day Cicada
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Copyright: Lise Villeneuve (lise) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 184 W: 51 N: 560] (2819)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2008-07-18
Categories: Insects
Camera: Canon EOS 30 D, Canon EF 100-400 f/4.5-5.6L IS USM, B+W 77mm MRC Slim UV Filter
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/250 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2008-08-10 15:42
Viewed: 637
Points: 20
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Dog-day cicada(Tibicen canicularis)

Cicadas are flying, plant-sucking insects of the Order Hemiptera; their closest relatives are leafhoppers, treehoppers, and fulgoroids. Adult cicadas tend to be large (most are 25-50mm), with prominent wide-set eyes, short antennae, and clear wings held roof-like over the abdomen. Cicadas are probably best known for their conspicuous acoustic signals or "songs", which the males make using special structures called tymbals, found on the abdomen.

All but a few cicada species have multiple-year life cycles, most commonly 2-8 years. In most cicada species, adults can be found every year because the population is not developmentally synchronized; these are often called "annual" cicada species. In contrast, populations of the periodic cicada species are synchronized, so that almost all of them mature into adults in the same year. The fact that periodic cicadas remain locked together in time is made even more amazing by their extremely long life-cycles of 13 or 17 years.


http://www.cirrusimage.com/homoptera_cicada_T_canicularis.htm
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Witaj Lise,
Amazing muzzle. Such macro is attractive me. Pretty colours and grotesque close relations.
I congratulate and greet - Roma

bonjour Lise

belle macro et portrait de cet insecte, avec un excellent POV,
j'aime le ton de couleur et de lumière chaude,
excellent focus, belle netteté et détail, TFS

Asbed

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  • Art_R Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 201 W: 16 N: 483] (1995)
  • [2008-08-10 19:21]

Hi Lise , Wow!!! terrific photo , amazing close up with stunning detail ,color and composition , really a great job here , thanks for sharing this beauty.
regards
Art

I wonder if the cycle is different from place to place? It must be or then it would be like an eclipse where most would see...very nice image of an insect with which I have a love hate relationship...Your depth of field was no doubt chose for a reason of size in this case and for all over grandeur. Well done.
Tres' Bien
Bob

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  • Alex99 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3174 W: 154 N: 4796] (15481)
  • [2008-08-10 22:45]

Hi Lise.
Great close-up taken with long telelens. Amazing POV and cropping. I like excellent reproduction of the insect, rich nice colours and perfect composition of the image. My bets wishes and TFS.
Alexei.

merhaba lise
Çok net bir çalışma.

Hi Lise,
A perfect macro in all around. Very well fucused and composed.TFS.
Greetings from TR N. Cyprus,
Bayram

Salut Lise,
Beau portrait! Pas le sujet comme tel, il ferait des cauchemars à mes gars, coté technique c'est excellent. Le point de vue, la composition et la netteté du visage sont excellent. J'ai essayé hier de faire des macros d'insectes. C'est plus facile à critiquer qu'a faire!
TFS
Eric

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  • pvs Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1159 W: 255 N: 2639] (11925)
  • [2008-08-11 7:30]

Hi Lise,

A nice macro of this ugly looking fellow,details,colors and sharpness are well handled,tfs

Paul

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  • hibou Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 206 W: 1 N: 351] (1561)
  • [2008-09-09 18:00]

Bonjour Lise,
Impressionnant et très bien réussi Bravo!
Donald

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