Can someone point me to a good tutorial on how to photograph fleeting insects? Horse Flies for instance? I’ve got a camera with macro so I can get sort of close, but of course they fly away. I imagine that there are kill and no-kill options, but where to start? Thanks.

[image] insectobserver123: parts of my fridge actually get below freezing I had a fridge that randomly did that to the whole interior before it died. It caused an unopened can of carbonated water to burst, and froze eggs solid in their shells.

Thats what I do to all the tiny critters that enter my room at night. Trap them in a jar then slam down on hard surface to stun them for just long enough to take decent pictures. And then toss them outside (and hopefully check photos beforehand to avoid regrets).

Jay? The link on your iNat Forums Profile to your iNaturailst profile doesn’t work. I think it was pasted twice or something. Here’s what is looks like: iNat profile: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/https://www.inaturalist.org/people/jayswildlife

Can you link to it? I was looking for an existing one last night and couldn’t find it, so I just commented on the original topic requesting it.

it’s not pasted 2x. Pasting implies it was a user action. There was a change to the iNat profile field in the forum preferences that added “https://www.inaturalist.org/people/” to the field. This resulted in that string getting appended as a prefix to all the ones that already had "https://www.…

Hm, can’t find it, maybe there’s only the theme about links, and as I understand now it’s better to create not a bug report, but a theme with warning to change the link for people who added it.

Yeah, I have noticed that same thing with few other people and their profiles. I even checked my profile page settings if I accidentally pasted it twice, but it’s only once there. But what @Star3 said just above, makes a lot of sense. You apparently only need to paste your username there, not your …

[image] jayswildlife: which I completely missed the first time, You didn’t miss it the first time, because it didn’t have any text below the box asking for your user name when the field was first added on June 25. Per Carrie, that change to the field to use the user name was only added aroun…

Ahh alright! I think I had just added the link there couple days earlier before that latest change was made.

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I know what you need for id, very often details =/= “beautiful”.

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