A midge massacre! (pic)

[ecooper]

Out on the back deck of my house I have two large saucers that hold a number of small pots of carnivorous plants, including a couple of cape sundews (Drosera capensis). Well a couple of weeks ago I went out and I don’t know if there had been a midge convention on my deck or something, but the cape sundews had both trapped several non-biting midges (chironomids), all of which seemed to be the same species.

Naturally...I took pictures!

Cheers,
EC
More information and photos: wp.me/p2wM8r-wf

Olympus OM-D E-M5; Zuiko 60mm micro four thirds macro; manual exposure (F11 @ 1/200 sec); Olympus RF-11 ring flash (1/4-1/2 power); ISO 200


P8310353 copyright ernie cooper 2013 by ernie.cooper, on Flickr

[nomad]

Great image!

[anthony]

This could not happen to a better group of insects... great picture as always.