PhotoFeed Contest - Macro Photography - Little Stainer
This post will be my entry for @photofeed macro photography contest If you wish to join the contest please kindly read and follow the rules and guidelines here for Contest Round 102
This little guy is quite easy to spot because of the bright color appearance. Not sure why it would pick such a bright color, as it will easily reveal its position to the predator, but there are might be many reasons behind its adaptation and the reason why it picked this bright red color.
As we all know there are times when some animal in the wild chooses bright colors to show that they have some kind of scary defense system in their arsenal, which mostly consists of venom to deter the predator. and this might be the reason why this guy chooses this bight color. If you have any other info please kindly let me know in the comment.
This is a very young stage of the Cotton Stainer bug, one of the bug that is considered a pest in the cotton farming industry.
For this week's macro photography contest, I will use the first image below as my entry.
Look at the color pattern that this little guy has, and how it has so much color contrast from the leaf it was resting on. It is so easy for its color to reveal its presence, isn't it? a bright little thing moving around the green leaf. It will raise so much suspicion. But hey they could survive, and it is how nature work
| Photo Style | Macro Photography | Accesory | 50 mm Canon lens + Adapter + Extension Tube | |
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Thanks for sharing your wonderful photos!
No wonder it's name includes stainer bug, probably the dense color is a way to stain predators too with some form of poison or something.
Amazing angular shots :)
Yes, they will eat the seed, and then produce a kind of saliva or water from the process that will make a red stain to the cotton.
yes, the color already show that it has something on its arsenal to ruin things. hahah
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But I forgot to mention it to him.
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This is coincidentally I also photographed the same insect object Red Cotton. However, your explanation about cotton is more extensive, I really enjoyed reading it.
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your shots of the cotton stainer are also really nice om. thank you for stopping by.
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