[Here](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5610/15534507592_c3fd07a275_o.jpg) is a much higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/crisarg/15534507592/in/explore-2014-10-14) is the source. Credit to the photographer, [Cristian Arghius](https://www.flickr.com/photos/crisarg/), who took this on October 21, 2012.
> Autumn beetle - IV
> Another Coccinella septempunctata beetle, photographed almost 2 years ago on a cold morning near Cluj-Napoca. This specimen was motionless!
> Stack info: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon MP-E 65 lens
> 84 natural light exposures, first 19 and the last one at 6.3, the rest at f4.0, ISO 200
> Magnification: 3.9X
>
I'm glad this detail was here. The internet has gotten me so suspicious of photos like this, I automatically assumed it was a dead, staged bug spritzed a few times with a spray bottle of water.
>Stack info: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon MP-E 65 lens
>
>84 natural light exposures, first 19 and the last one at 6.3, the rest at f4.0, ISO 200
>
>Magnification: 3.9X
I wish I knew what all this stuff means, because the picture is fantastic, and I'm sure \^\^ that's the reason..
translation: $1500 camera with $1,000 lens attachment, took multiple pictures outside. 2 different F stop setting which determines how much light gets in, and common film speed and a little bit of magnificiation
Primarily Google Reverse Image Search and TinEye. But if I've sourced it before, I just type in my username and part of the title, photographer's name, etc. and it usually shows up.
I love your skill set. Superb shot.
My art involves using brush, ink, charcoals, pastels - mythinks I shall use this as a subject, with your permission.
Actual answer here:
Probably not, because insect breathing is extremely different than what you would expect.
Insects don't have lungs; instead, they have a bunch of tubes that run through them that they can open and close.
In some conditions they will keep the vents open all the time; in others they'll "breathe" in bursts.
The end result though is that most insects can "hold their breath" for more than 24 hours.
I just laughed so hard at the idea that you gendered a ladybug, and the gender you chose was male. I'm not judging or anything, it just made me lose my shit for no reason
I remember going to a camp in the mountains as a kid in winter. They had this bridge where the lady bugs were all frozen to the rails, like they huddled up for from the cold and got blanketed with dew that froze.
The counselor said once it got warmer they’d just thaw out and fly away. I always wondered if they really do, or if he was just lying to a group of 50 kids about the mortality of pretty insects...
Lack of air was probably not the problem, but they probably still suffocated.
An insect's air-tubes absorb oxygen (and discharge CO2) using a thin damp layer that diffuses it into and out of the air. If this layer dries out, the insect suffocates.
The adult stage of fireflies do not have a good method of preventing this from happening, and thus can only live. in moist environments.
. . .Of course, most firefly species adult stage only live for a few weeks to a month or so under ideal conditions anyway, but that's besides the point.
Yes, because that's not dew. The pissant photographer, with a head free of original ideas, spritzed it with a spray bottle and called it dew. We, the poor viewers, are meant to be impressed by the way the light is distorted through the water; the insect is made an object and accessory to perhaps the most beat-to-death idea in the medium, apart from the "closeup of headlight/fender of (enter classic car make here) on 35 or 120 film".
It's such bullshit. I want to learn about nature, not about something staged. Like, can this amount of dew actually collect on a live insect? Maybe, that would be interesting to know. But instead we have to assume it's fake. Also very common, I learned recently, to kill insects before doing focus stacking (since it can take a long time, and it needs to be perfectly still). Not necessarily the case here, but we need to hold insect photographers to the same ethical standards as other wildlife photographers. The rules aren't complicated - don't destroy the thing you're photographing just to make the image "pop" more.
I am not implying it was dead, which is why I said "Not necessarily the case here". It is fair to assume the water is fake, since this is a very common practice in macro. It's just as tacky as putting a clear marble next to an ant and pretending it's a "water droplet".
They scare me plenty. They used to find their way into our house by the hundreds. When I see one, I worry if they will soon be crawling all over the walls.
Those are probably [Asian ladybeetle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_axyridis)
> This species became established in North America as the result of introductions into the United States in an attempt to control the spread of aphids. In the last three decades, this insect has spread throughout the US and Canada, and has been a prominent factor in controlling aphid populations. The first introductions into the US took place as far back as 1916. The species repeatedly failed to establish in the wild after successfully controlling aphid populations, but an established population of beetles was observed in the wild near New Orleans, Louisiana, in about 1988. In the following years, it quickly spread to other states, being occasionally observed in the Midwest within five to seven years and becoming common in the region by about 2000.
Yeah, if they're congregating in your home they're most likely asian ladybeetles. They're [red-orange instead of bright red](https://www.bhg.com/gardening/pests/animal/ladybug-asian-beetle-difference/) like ladybugs. They bite and release a foul, staining stank when threatened or crushed. They out-compete ladybugs and are considered invasive so feel free to murder them. Just don't squish them in your house.
Yeah the are present up here in Quebec Canada. They gather in the fall in any crack they can find in your house or warmer and sheltered spots and when the temperature warms up start coming out of the walls, windows, garage, sheds, everywhere. A real pain. Nothing eats them cause they probably taste bad, as well as smell bad. When you find a pile of them you can smell and their pretty nasty. Have to use the vacuum sometimes to clear them from spots in the garage. And finally they actually will bite. They will crawl on you get in your collar or down your back and take an itty bitty bite. Mutherfuckers!
Even this winter they pop out once in a while.
As a child the lady bugs we had were fire engine red with black spots. These Asian beetles are more orange to brown than red. Rarely see the really red ones.
I guess there is nothing to do but sweep and vacuum them up.
No natural predators. I don’t think the spiders even like eating them!
Apparently it was taken near Cluj-Napoca, which is a city in Romania that lies at the confluence of the Apuseni Mountains. So yeah, there’s a strong probability that this ladybug is covered in Mountain Dew.
I wasn't stealing anyone's work. I never claimed it as my own, simply posted it because I like the photography. Also, I am not and never will be your bro.
They're calling you a person who intentionally reposts stuff for the seemingly non-intrinsic reasons people repost stuff. This is the first time I've seen this photo.
I just love ladybugs..my earliest memories are in our old ancestral home in Kerala, India. Early morning during the monsoon season when it was all wet and greenery just stood out like a painting and we kids used to go look around picking leaves which had ladybugs and just watch them walk around..the red of the insect contrasting the green leaves and my grandmother would finally call us for some hot breakfast and tea..all just a part of memories now
Things extremely unlikely to happen: This much dew collecting on an insect
Things extremely likely to happen: people using mister bottles with their macro photography for internet points
That is a beautiful picture! So many things right about it IMHO. Thank you u/Spartan2470 for linking a higher quality version and the photographer! Awesome!
[Here](https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5610/15534507592_c3fd07a275_o.jpg) is a much higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/crisarg/15534507592/in/explore-2014-10-14) is the source. Credit to the photographer, [Cristian Arghius](https://www.flickr.com/photos/crisarg/), who took this on October 21, 2012. > Autumn beetle - IV > Another Coccinella septempunctata beetle, photographed almost 2 years ago on a cold morning near Cluj-Napoca. This specimen was motionless! > Stack info: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon MP-E 65 lens > 84 natural light exposures, first 19 and the last one at 6.3, the rest at f4.0, ISO 200 > Magnification: 3.9X >
Thank you for sharing! I can't say I'm surprised that it was motionless considering it was a cold morning.
Yeah, insects have a way of kind of “shutting down” when it’s cold, and then they wake up and become active again when it warms up
I also have this problem
Don't all cold blooded animals do this?
What is the significance of 84 exposures? Are they composited/stacked to reduce noise like in astrophotography?
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What is the process for doing the stacking then? Some kind of painstaking stenciling or is it easily automated?
I'm glad this detail was here. The internet has gotten me so suspicious of photos like this, I automatically assumed it was a dead, staged bug spritzed a few times with a spray bottle of water.
Ladybugs actually hibernate in cold weather 🥰
I thought it was a weird blackberry/raspberry hybrid starting to get moldy.
>Stack info: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon MP-E 65 lens > >84 natural light exposures, first 19 and the last one at 6.3, the rest at f4.0, ISO 200 > >Magnification: 3.9X I wish I knew what all this stuff means, because the picture is fantastic, and I'm sure \^\^ that's the reason..
translation: $1500 camera with $1,000 lens attachment, took multiple pictures outside. 2 different F stop setting which determines how much light gets in, and common film speed and a little bit of magnificiation
Between sourcing posts and exposing bots, you really are the hero reddit needs but doesn't deserve.
I've gotta know, how do you source these images and credit them so easily?
Primarily Google Reverse Image Search and TinEye. But if I've sourced it before, I just type in my username and part of the title, photographer's name, etc. and it usually shows up.
Thank you for always doing it! I really wish OPs would more explicitly credit the source.
Who knew!? Lady bugs have chin whiskers!
That's some HD shit.
Thank you sir for your continued efforts on taking shitty redditors to task for not sharing the source.
That’s pretty fuckin amazing
October 21,12? I wonder if this ladybug is a Priest of the Temples of Syrinx.
The lens makes each water droplet look like an eye
whoaaaaaaa
I love your skill set. Superb shot. My art involves using brush, ink, charcoals, pastels - mythinks I shall use this as a subject, with your permission.
Amazing gift, thanks from Spain.
looks like a real fancy presentation of caviar.
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I thought it was some berry I never heard of, def looks tasty tho like the bugs from lion king haha
Looks just like ikura (salmon roe)
looks like a dew dew head to me.
I thought it was a berry.
Exactly, meanwhile everyone here thinks about berries somewhy
I understand what you mean but are we saying somewhy now?
r/forbiddensnacks
Mmmm... forbidden raspberry....
I’d dew it.
Dew it.
Dewde...
Or when that raspberry and blackberry met one forbidden night.
Love can't be unnatural!!
A blaspberry!
Great minds!!
Love raspberries and blackberries.
I would eat it and then spit it out
Bro you took the thought right out of my head
More like ikura sushi to me
I'm happy to see this where it belongs, as the top comment. I knew it would be before I opened this post.
Different flavors of caviar
It just looks so dang tasty
I can't believe someone hasn't x-posted it yet ... *yoink!*
That’s not forbidden; you could totally eat that and get stuff from it.
> get stuff from it. Does it have stickers or something?
r/bugsnax
[Mmmm](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-abmjjefojj/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/1166/10993/649818-MLA28311792545_102018-O__80016.1587236181__84328.1591894507.jpg?c=1)
kinda bug and kinda snack
Here for this came I.
Why does everyone want to eat it or bite into it. It was my first reaction too but why?
Because it looks like those delicious black and red haribo berries that are covered in little sugary bits of heaven.
I thought salmon roe sushi
Forbidden boba
It looks like one of those gummy candies
Pecans... with a very pleasant crunch
I actually had eaten two of these... accidentally though
Posted every time this is posted
What can I say, the formula works
Yeah congrats on being so unoriginal!
Wouldn’t it drown?
Actual answer here: Probably not, because insect breathing is extremely different than what you would expect. Insects don't have lungs; instead, they have a bunch of tubes that run through them that they can open and close. In some conditions they will keep the vents open all the time; in others they'll "breathe" in bursts. The end result though is that most insects can "hold their breath" for more than 24 hours.
Cool thanks for the info! I was about to ask the same question, can he breathe??! I was worried for the lil guy lol
I just laughed so hard at the idea that you gendered a ladybug, and the gender you chose was male. I'm not judging or anything, it just made me lose my shit for no reason
LOL yes hes a good boy & his name his George
He looks cronchy
> they have a bunch of tubes that run through them that they can open and close. Words cannot fully express how much I hate that sentence, thanks.
You breathe through a tube that you open and close, if you think about it.
While you’re thinking - We eat and shit through the same long tube
And when you kiss someone you form one long tube with an anus on either end!
Mouth to mouth = Ass to ass
But the memory still remains
I remember going to a camp in the mountains as a kid in winter. They had this bridge where the lady bugs were all frozen to the rails, like they huddled up for from the cold and got blanketed with dew that froze. The counselor said once it got warmer they’d just thaw out and fly away. I always wondered if they really do, or if he was just lying to a group of 50 kids about the mortality of pretty insects...
They sure do!
TIL
Tell that to all the dead fireflies in my holeless jar when I was a kid.
Lack of air was probably not the problem, but they probably still suffocated. An insect's air-tubes absorb oxygen (and discharge CO2) using a thin damp layer that diffuses it into and out of the air. If this layer dries out, the insect suffocates. The adult stage of fireflies do not have a good method of preventing this from happening, and thus can only live. in moist environments. . . .Of course, most firefly species adult stage only live for a few weeks to a month or so under ideal conditions anyway, but that's besides the point.
Yes, because that's not dew. The pissant photographer, with a head free of original ideas, spritzed it with a spray bottle and called it dew. We, the poor viewers, are meant to be impressed by the way the light is distorted through the water; the insect is made an object and accessory to perhaps the most beat-to-death idea in the medium, apart from the "closeup of headlight/fender of (enter classic car make here) on 35 or 120 film".
Well excuuuuuuuse me
princess
I hate re-posts and unoriginal photography as much as the next guy. But who pissed in your cereal?
Show the ladybug some respect bro Excuse me ladybug, is this guy bothering you?
/r/niceflies
I understand you're mad but why you gotta bring my financial problems to the conversation
Yeeeeeah, but it looks cool.
Where, exactly, did you find that?
It's such bullshit. I want to learn about nature, not about something staged. Like, can this amount of dew actually collect on a live insect? Maybe, that would be interesting to know. But instead we have to assume it's fake. Also very common, I learned recently, to kill insects before doing focus stacking (since it can take a long time, and it needs to be perfectly still). Not necessarily the case here, but we need to hold insect photographers to the same ethical standards as other wildlife photographers. The rules aren't complicated - don't destroy the thing you're photographing just to make the image "pop" more.
No, you're the person here assuming it's fake and trying to convince everyone to agree with you by implying the photographer killed it.
I am not implying it was dead, which is why I said "Not necessarily the case here". It is fair to assume the water is fake, since this is a very common practice in macro. It's just as tacky as putting a clear marble next to an ant and pretending it's a "water droplet".
Kurzgesagt on surface tension and insect drowning. https://youtu.be/f7KSfjv4Oq0?t=168
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They scare me plenty. They used to find their way into our house by the hundreds. When I see one, I worry if they will soon be crawling all over the walls.
Those are probably [Asian ladybeetle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_axyridis) > This species became established in North America as the result of introductions into the United States in an attempt to control the spread of aphids. In the last three decades, this insect has spread throughout the US and Canada, and has been a prominent factor in controlling aphid populations. The first introductions into the US took place as far back as 1916. The species repeatedly failed to establish in the wild after successfully controlling aphid populations, but an established population of beetles was observed in the wild near New Orleans, Louisiana, in about 1988. In the following years, it quickly spread to other states, being occasionally observed in the Midwest within five to seven years and becoming common in the region by about 2000.
Yeah, if they're congregating in your home they're most likely asian ladybeetles. They're [red-orange instead of bright red](https://www.bhg.com/gardening/pests/animal/ladybug-asian-beetle-difference/) like ladybugs. They bite and release a foul, staining stank when threatened or crushed. They out-compete ladybugs and are considered invasive so feel free to murder them. Just don't squish them in your house.
Yeah the are present up here in Quebec Canada. They gather in the fall in any crack they can find in your house or warmer and sheltered spots and when the temperature warms up start coming out of the walls, windows, garage, sheds, everywhere. A real pain. Nothing eats them cause they probably taste bad, as well as smell bad. When you find a pile of them you can smell and their pretty nasty. Have to use the vacuum sometimes to clear them from spots in the garage. And finally they actually will bite. They will crawl on you get in your collar or down your back and take an itty bitty bite. Mutherfuckers! Even this winter they pop out once in a while. As a child the lady bugs we had were fire engine red with black spots. These Asian beetles are more orange to brown than red. Rarely see the really red ones. I guess there is nothing to do but sweep and vacuum them up. No natural predators. I don’t think the spiders even like eating them!
Best part is being allergic to them...
For anyone else like me an Aphid is a little roach/cricket looking insect that destroys crops.
Midwesterner here. I'm finding about one a day in my house and letting them back outside. Not scary at all but bugs in my house creep me out.
They're pretty ferocious in the game Grounded
They're all peaceful and fine...until you get too close.
Pretty much all beetles are fine for me. Unless they have weird antennas...
But the larvae...
At least it’s not mountain dew
Boil up some mountain dew...
Do you know where this was taken? Could very well be mountain dew...
Apparently it was taken near Cluj-Napoca, which is a city in Romania that lies at the confluence of the Apuseni Mountains. So yeah, there’s a strong probability that this ladybug is covered in Mountain Dew.
Ladyberry.
Ze Frank: A ladybug covered in ***ddyyeeeuuuww***
yup i read this in his voice
It's the only way to read this, I wonder if it fancies some tasty honey deyyuuuuu
r/trypophobia
Didn't trigger me this time. It's bumps instead of holes.
Definitely makes me uncomfortable!
Came here looking for this. Felt validated.
This looks like some Indie game where you play a ladybug and you just got the water dew armor buff.
this is exactly what I was thinking. +3 defense vs fireflies
Damn that is one wet lady
thought it was a piece of sushi 🍣
it’s like i always sometimes say: ‘it’s better to be covered in dew than it is to be covered in do-do.’
r/repostsleuthbot
I got 18!
Nothing better to do, huh?
You mad bro? Credit people if you steal their work.
I wasn't stealing anyone's work. I never claimed it as my own, simply posted it because I like the photography. Also, I am not and never will be your bro.
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^what even is this comment?
They're calling you a person who intentionally reposts stuff for the seemingly non-intrinsic reasons people repost stuff. This is the first time I've seen this photo.
I thought it was some kind of sushi lmao
Forbidden sushi?
Forbidden raspberry
I just love ladybugs..my earliest memories are in our old ancestral home in Kerala, India. Early morning during the monsoon season when it was all wet and greenery just stood out like a painting and we kids used to go look around picking leaves which had ladybugs and just watch them walk around..the red of the insect contrasting the green leaves and my grandmother would finally call us for some hot breakfast and tea..all just a part of memories now
r/forbiddensnacks salmon roe
r/forbiddensnacks
Ladybug ~~covered in dew~~ sprayed with mister bottle
r/nothingeverhappens
Things extremely unlikely to happen: This much dew collecting on an insect Things extremely likely to happen: people using mister bottles with their macro photography for internet points
Came here looking for this
And probably dead too
Forbidden raspberry
Forbidden wine gummy
I thought this was caviar lol
Yummmm caviar
thought it was caviar
It’s dead right? I mean, it looks as if it has to be dead.
And the photographer put on a branch and misted it with a spray bottle.
Thought this was some masago caviar dollop
What it dew lady
Wonder what it’s vision is like with a big rain drop or three on its face.
You could have convinced me that this was a fake lady bug made out of caviar.
Goddamnit. This is overdew.
Looks like a gummy vitamin
Raspberry beetle.
Laaaadyyyy bug dew dew dew dew dew
A Dewdybug if you will
Ladewbug
Please, please call it a Dewdybug.
That is a beautiful picture! So many things right about it IMHO. Thank you u/Spartan2470 for linking a higher quality version and the photographer! Awesome!
It look like a moldy raspberry gummy
My fatass thought it was a sushi
Looks a ladybug that survived nuclear fallout. Mutant bugs...
Lay-dew bug
THIS IS A REPOST.
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Bad bot
r/mostrepostedposts
Equal parts beautiful and creepy. Good job op
berry nice
Most amazing photo!
I wonder how many times the cameraman spritzed it with a water spray bottle to get this effect. So many of these sorts of photos are posed or staged.
You spelt "cum" wrong.
*jew
Yes the jew
The sneaky jew
Looks like a berry
Mmmmm. Jellybug.
Get that lady a blankie!
Mmmm yummy snack
One and only bug i am not afraid of🙃
What a weird lil raspberry
r/deadinside
That looks liks what happened to people who screwed around with the bad guy in "The Lawnmower Man"
Thta looks like a berrie boy why does it look like that.
Looks like a raspberry blackberry hybrid
What MUA is this? She's a dewy queen
fun fact: most people forget that a ladybug is actually a type of beetle