A standout grasshopper photo.

The first time I saw it, I thought it was a mechanical toy! Such fantastic details of a grasshopper was captured by Vivian Bvivian using a FUJIFILM-Fine-Pix-J 100 digital camera.




Photograph courtesy of Vivian Bvivian. Published with permission.

A pair of white butterflies

I saw this pair of butterflies (or moths?!) in UP Clarkfield. I think it is mating season and they are coming out more. Unfortunately, unlike the Danaids, these types prefer to fold their wings vertically, making them look like leaves. Their wing uppersides are much better to look at, but you will seldom catch them in full glory.
What is remarkable in my photo is the clarity of the veins in the wings. I think this is the mating season for this butterfly type. I saw a group of five or seven flitting together among the hedge plants.

Insect	White Butterfly
Location	U.P. Clarkfield, Pampanga
Camera	Samsung WB150F
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio

Dragonfly at UP Clarkfield

Insect	Dragonfly
Location	UP Clarkfield, Pampanga
Date	Sep. 27, 2012
Camera	Samsung WB150F
Photograrpher	Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio

Unknown Butterfly or Moth?

I do not know the species of this butterfly.

Identified by Dr. Romana Reyes of Bago City as Striped Albatross (Appias libythea olferna). Many thanks, Dr. Romana!

Photographing butterflies with the Samsung WB150F

It is getting easier to shoot beautiful butterflies with a high magnification zoom lens. I can now capture (shoot) them without disturbing them. Here is one I shot at Clarkfield UP Campus.

Photo taken by Dr. Ernesto P. Adorio with a Samsung WB150F compact digital camera.

Insects: Red damselfly and pink dragonfly together

Photo taken with Samsun WB150F by Dr. Ernesto Adorio with fstop 5.8, 1/125 shutter, iso 320
4320x3240

Insects: butterfly

I enjoy finding the common and scientific names of plants and flowers. I hesitate to do that with butterflies. Here is one clear photo, after many attempts catching it, at UP Clarkfield.

Here is another shot of the same(supposedly) butterfly.

I will appreciate it if a reader identifies the beautiful butterfly.


Photos taken by Ernesto Adorio,PhD. with an Olympus VG-110 digital compact camera.

Insects: a spiny caterpillar.

I never want to touch this insect. I know it might be a beautiful butterfly or moth someday.
But its hairs or spines are so itchy on sensitive skins. Maybe I will wear plastic gloves when shooting them, In case I want to move them around.

Insects: A fleeting insect caught by a camera.

I used to run after butterflies or moths, but I got wise, an instead wait near flowers. They usually come back. I sure wished I have a long lens or a superzoom camera, but this photo make me smile what patience can do.

It is not the camera which makes the photographer but the photographs. Keep shooting.

Insects: A wasp pollinating a datiles flower

A wasp pollinating a flower of a calabor tree,locally known as sarisa, tserisa, Cherrysa, aratile.

Insect	wasp
Camera	Olympus VG110
Photographer	Dr. Ernesto Adorio
Location	UP Clarkfield, Pampanga
Reference	http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropView?id=1500