Up Close with Nature

Must be quite a sight to behold! You can witness this at Körös River (Hungary), Central Europe, if you are lucky. Because of these kinds of occurrences being largely dependent on environmental factors such as temperature or moisture, it was nearly impossible to tell exactly when they would happen. Life in the Undergrowth Read more about the amazing documentary here. Since mayflies have no

Another clip from the Life in the Undergrowth series. If you don't keep your nest neat and tidy, no females will even visit you. On the plus side, though, if you're excellent in this department, you might get multiple visits in a night! var sc_project=5950241; var sc_invisible=1; var sc_security="db14c664"; Highly

Springtails This short clip is extracted from the great Life in the Undergrowth More about springtail on Wikipedia. You can find my first springtail (Collembola: Paronellinae) shots here. Highly recommended:

Just a short clip from the amazing "Life In The Undergrowth - 01". An orchard spider is shown enduring a parasitic wasp grub, which injects its host with a hormone that deranges it and halts the spinning of webs. The grub then sucks the liquid from the spider's body and uses the remaining silk to form its cocoon. You can read about this amazing DVD and how it was made here on Wikipedia.

"If we and the rest of the backboned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if they were to disappear, the land's ecosystems would collapse. The soil would lose its fertility. Many of the plants would no longer be pollinated. Lots of animals, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals would have nothing to eat. And our fields and pastures would be

Macro is a bit like portraiture, except instead of working with a human models, you work with insects. In portraiture, you want to get to know your models, help them relax, pose them and bring out the best in them. Same for insects. Okay, you can't really make insects pose if they don't want to, but knowing as much as you can about them help you in finding them, approaching them (without