Posted by mark on Aug 02 2015 in Insect Photography, Macro Photography, Focus Stacking, Extreme Macro
Japanese Beetle, Popillia japonica
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An up close image of a Japanese Beetle - Popillia japonica:
These iridescent beetles love to much on almost anything that grows in your garden, and with the absence of any natural predators in North America, they are indeed a destructive pest.
This photo is a stack focused composite of 54 exposures taken in a single pass at roughly 5x lifesized magnification.
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