Monday 20 November 2017

Close to home

Close to home

I'm sitting at the computer entering records of observations into NatureSpot. An annoying little fly is flying around and keeps landing on the screen. I take a closer look at it. It looks like a Moth Fly, very difficult to identify to species level, but to be sure I pull out the camera and take some photos of it. I load the photos onto the computer and I can see that it's not a Moth Fly but a Barklouse.

I look it up on NatureSpot. It's Ectopsocus petersi. I enter the record into NatureSpot. A little fly lands on the screen. It's not Ectopsocus petersi, this one's a bit darker in colour. I pull out the camera and take some photos of it.

This could take a while....


Sony ILCE-6000
Canon MP-E 65mm F2.8 G SSM
f11 1/200 ISO 100