Macro Photography - Hoverflies & Sickle-bearing bush-cricket

While hunting for macro objects in the bushes a few days ago my eyes fell on a very small flower fly (hoverflies). Its small size doesn't make me ignore it, in fact it makes me more challenged to be able to capture some photos even though I have to work a little harder than usual.

Photographing flower flies is not an easy job, I'm not saying it's very difficult but it is a little different than photographing other insects. Apart from the fact that flower flies are flying insects, their very small size is also a challenge in itself.

Even so, I certainly won't just give up until I finally managed to take several photos of the flower flies. Although I admit that the quality of the photos is still not perfect, this is because the equipment I use to photograph objects that are too small is not very adequate.

However, some of my shots are still worthy enough to be enjoyed in my opinion. That's why I finally decided to share some photos of these flower flies in this post. As for the flower flies, what I mean is the Paragus flower fly genus.

"Paragus is a genus of hoverflies from the family Syrphidae." Wikipedia

Then in the same location I also found a sickle-bearing bush-cricket. Crickets generally have similarities with grasshoppers, both in terms of body structure & others, this is because these two insects both come from the order Orthoptera.

However, the distinctive difference between crickets and grasshoppers lies in their antennae. Grasshoppers generally do not have long antennae, while crickets have antennae that are the same size or even longer than their body size. Then the cricket that I am sharing is the Phaneroptera falcata cricket.

"Phaneroptera falcata, the sickle-bearing bush-cricket, is a species of Orthopterans belonging to the subfamily Phaneropterinae". Wikipedia

Camera	Smartphone + Macro Lens
Category	Macro Photography
Processed	Lightroom
Location	Tanah Luas, Indonesia