I have this camera as well. But, unless the subject is cooperative and will let me get super close I don’t use it. Am I missing something? My husband got it for me to take better bug photos but so far I seem better off with my Nikon P1000. The P1000 has amazing zoom unless the subject is already close. Then it won’t focus if you try to zoom in too much.
I have found it is a good under water camera.
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How fun! Quick question: how do you find so many different springtails?? All I can find is the same old springtails that never get past ‘needs id’, and I find them all the time under my compost bins. What am I missing??
Yippee! Another green treefrog!! It was so little!! And look at how its webbed feet spread out over the plant!!
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One of the best ways I’ve found (actually a fellow springtail identifier recommended to me) is just using any plastic lid (preferably with a bit of a lip) and sliding it along the ground, about walking speed, over a couple of meters of vegetation. As springtails jump, they’ll get scooped up. Where you live should have a lot of springtails, although basically anywhere you go has a bunch. You can also give any thick branch a good smack onto the lid, and that can have some good species too. As it begins to cool down, more species begin to come out, and Winter always brings a good variety, which is nice since there’s basically no other arthropods out.
Assuming your username is the same on INaturalist, I’ll go and have a look through them. :)
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Also they’re always more common when it’s nice and wet, so keep an eye out on rainy days! (Which it actually is for me, lol)
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Awesome! Thank you so much for the tips! Yes, my username and profile picture are the same; actually you have done all my maybe three or four springtail ids for me! I’ll try those tips, and who knows, maybe next time I will have a springtail to submit as my best photo of the week! (No, my camera is terrible at macro, but I’ll get there!)
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Got a picture of this little guy just a lil while after he secured himself here for his cocoon! The lil old lady buying these flowers from us was excited to inform her husband that he would become a “Geometry” moth 
I did say Geometer but she was just too happy about their Future Math Moth
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How cute! I love it! 
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This beautiful damselfly, (my second species).
It’s observation is at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314832429.
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I don’t know how long it’s been since the last poll, and I’m too lazy to check, but all I know is that we have the perfect amount of submissions (10)
- @shreedave’s Long-banded Silverline (I made this a link since it’s from last week’s poll and I forgot it)
- @tjeales’ Emu…?
- @MeeshMosh’s Summer Azure
- @reefersean 's Northern Rotund-Resin Bee
- @petezani’s Western Side-Blotched Lizard
- @macrotim’s Dolomedes triton
- @mkanimallover’s Green Treefrog
- @Tangent_Spinner’s Geometer Moth
- @yusufzanzibar’s Moth
- @shreedave’s Damselfly
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@mkanimallover, a frog finally worth posting here!
I didn’t know that frogs ate earthworms, but apparently they do! Observation at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/316255116.
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Wow! That’s amazing! Looks like a good halloween frog, with those zombie eyes! 
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This gravid Pristimantis from from Ecuador. I thought it was pretty cool to be able to see the eggs before they were laid.
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Nice!
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Yay!! How cute!!
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