A midge massacre! (D. capensis pic)

[ECooper]

Out on the back deck of my house I have two large saucers that hold a number of small pots of carnivorous plants, including a couple of cape sundews (Drosera capensis). Well a couple of weeks ago I went out and I don’t know if there had been a midge convention on my deck or something, but the cape sundews had both trapped several non-biting midges (chironomids), all of which seemed to be the same species.

Naturally...I took pictures!

Cheers,
EC
More information and photos: http://wp.me/p2wM8r-wf

Olympus OM-D E-M5; Zuiko 60mm micro four thirds macro; manual exposure (F11 @ 1/200 sec); Olympus RF-11 ring flash (1/4-1/2 power); ISO 200


P8310353 copyright ernie cooper 2013 by ernie.cooper, on Flickr

 

[Maiden]

Nice macro !
(And nice plant too!)

 

[pappydew]

Just checked out the other pics, nice shots!

 

[Rball]

awsome photo nice shot

 

[corky]

great shots Ernie,sundews must be a great source of critters for you