I took a walk around the reservoir last week, and these were flying around everywhere. I think they are some type of Midge, possibly of the Chironomus species.
At first I was attracted to the way their wings shimmered with translucence in the sun, but when I started taking close-ups, I noticed these incredible feathery antennae.
It was very difficult to get a decent, sharp picture of the antennae with the wind blowing so hard that day, but I’m quite pleased with the results.
© Alice through the Macro Lens [2012]
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such lovely wings.. they look what we used to call mayflies when I lived in Ireland… there used to be thousands of them around the rivers and lakes. My ex-husband was a fly fisherman and he used to tie his own flies. he used to make one that looked very like this. !
I went through internet images until I found the closest – but I may been wrong. Although from what I read, they use these for fly fishing too.
Tough life if you’re an insect.
Insects can’t have it all their own way 😉
Those antennae are incredible – they almost look like long lush eyelashes!
It puts TOWIE girls to shame 🙂
Nice macro shots 🙂
Thanks!
The last one is amazing 🙂
Interesting …. that was the one I wasn’t sure about posting …
Alice, I thought of you when i took my forest walk the other day. I saw this incredible bug that was almost a lime green; I thought “Wow! I wish Alice was here to get a great macro shot of this!” 🙂
Beautiful bug photographs! My Fav is the middle one 🙂