Joseph Ferraro

Thysbe Thursday
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Hemaris thysbe
(Hummingbird Clearwing) on giant ironweed at the Belle Isle Nature Center last summer. It was a good year for butterflies and moths, or at least for me finding them. The hummingbird moths were zipping around, usually obscured by other plants or flowers so I was happy to get this dorsal view with its wings extended and mostly frozen.
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© 2025 joseph ferraro - live in situ animal
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📷 : canon 5D4
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🔎 : canon 100-400 ef
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Next Generation 💚
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For flyday friday here is a female Hammertail Robber Fly using her ovipositor to lay eggs in this gray-headed coneflower flower. The larva are predators themselves, so either there are eggs or other larvae in the flower for them to eat, or they will hatch and then drop down to the soil to find their prey. She was moving constantly repeatedly piercing the flowerhead with her ovipositor.
Left the id to the Genus common name since I can’t pin down a proper id.

BONUS: It looks like she has some scales left over on her face from her last meal.
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© 2025 joseph ferraro - live in situ animal, freehand one frame macro photo
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📷 : canonr5
⚡️ : canon mt 26-ex
🔎 : canon mpe-65
⚙️ : diy diffuser
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Blood Moon 🩸🌑
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Sometimes I look up 😀. Stayed up to see and document the blood moon because I wanted to see it, and I was up working on some macro gear modifications. I was lucky that the full eclipse took place in a clearing so I could photograph it from my porch.
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© 2025 joseph ferraro
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📷 : canon r5
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🔎 : canon 100-400
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