Insect Macro Photography - Caterpillars, Beetles & Planthoppers

Hello photography lovers..

I am an amateur macro photography who uses a smartphone and a macro lens to take pictures of macro objects in nature. It has been my hobby for the past few years. You can check almost all of my posts on macro photos of insects, mushrooms and other macro objects that I found in the forest.

Even by using a smartphone, I always try to share macro photos that are pretty good and worth enjoying, especially photos of insects, which, even if they have sophisticated equipment, don't necessarily give perfect results. Why? because photographing insects is not the same as photographing humans who can pose in various styles or also photographing landscapes and other inanimate objects.

Insects are wild creatures, they can not only jump and fly but will be very sensitive to humans. Apart from wasps, I don't think there are any other types of insects that dare to attack humans. Even though the object is wild, the photographer must be able to produce a perfect shot. This is not an easy job. Don't believe? please try! :)

Maybe you will see the results of macro photography perfectly on some of the platforms that provide it. But rest assured that if the object is a live insect, it will still be difficult to get perfect results. It's a different matter if you have to kill an insect first and then photograph only some parts of its body, for example the head or other parts.

And on this occasion, as usual, I will share some macro shots of insects that I managed to capture a few days ago while hunting insects in the forest. There are three types of insects that are quite good in my opinion, one of which is a red caterpillar which, although a little amused, I managed to shoot quite well.

Then there is also a beetle, its size is not big and it can be seen in the photo below if the size of this beetle is relatively small. Despite its small size, this Lagria beetle from the Tenebrionidae family looks dashing with brown fur and black eyes.

And lastly is the planthopper genus from the Ricaniidae family. The color of this leafhopper is quite interesting, even at first I thought it was a moth but I guessed wrong, it turned out to be a leafhopper.

Camera	Smartphone + Macro Lens
Category	Insect Photography
Processed	Lightroom
Location	Sumatera, Indonesia