This rather attractive beetle is (I think) a garden chafer Phyllopertha horticola, which we found a long way from any gardens - struggling to cross the sand dunes at Holkham NNR in Norfolk, when we visited a couple of weeks ago. Blown off course from cereal fields nearby perhaps, where its root-feeding larvae can be a pest.
It is a beauty, you get some serious depth of field in all these shots. Ring flash or a compact camera?
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ReplyDeleteCompact camera Pentax W20 see http://www.ukdigitalcamerareviews.co.uk/pentax_optio_w20_reviews.htm
Once you get familiar with ts settings and used to its limitations it's a brilliant piece of kit. If they still made them I'd buy another as a back-up. I bought one of the later models that has HD video and additional bells and whistles, but the battery life is crap - with the W20 a charge lasts a long time and you get reasonable warning when it's running out.
A stunningly beautiful beetle Phil.
ReplyDeleteHi Keith, those metallic colours really light up when the sun comes out..
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