Anytime I run across yellow wildflowers while hiking the prairie, I always take a little time to check out the flowers for insects. It seems that the yellow wildflowers are a popular color with many of the small prairie insects, such as with this unidentifed, hopper-like insect I found perched on a Jerusalem Artichoke (Helianthus tuberosus) wildflower, a few days ago:
To better show the colors/patterns on this insect’s back, I’ve cropped the above image in tight:
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 5D Mark 3 body
- Canon EF 180mm f/3.5 macro lens
- Vanguard Alta Pro 283CT carbon fiber tripod, with 3 Pod H-3 ballhead (this is my new, lightweight macro setup)
- ISO 400
- Aperture f/11
- Shutter 1/25 sec.