Been wanting to shoot at Venus Drive again and we started to camp at the “Sigma Tree”. It was only called the Sigma Tree because one of us had dropped and broke his Sigma 150mm there before. 😛

This tree had a decent population of fungus weevils and checkered beetles. They scampered all over the tree trunk and one just to observe hard enough to find the little guys who looked a bit like ultraman. lol

#1 2 Fungus Weevils, would their paths cross?

#2 Private conversation going on when they finally met

#3 And one decided to turn away. Bad breath??

#4 The Fungus Weevils were pretty active and ran in little spurts. I had to put my tripod aside and do hand held shots of these. Gotta love the big eyes!!

#5 Side view. The eyes do remind me of ultraman…

#6 View from the other side

#7 This one had a black patterned back

#8 Perching up for a nice pose!

#9 Hairy little beetle. Could be a Checkered Beetle. Anyone with confirmation?

I had reached before the others did, and managed to capture some shots with morning dew!

#10 2 Treehoppers waiting for the dew to dry

#11 A fungus-ridden ant, now swarmed with morning dew!

#12 Branded Imperial (Eooxylides tharis distanti) getting disturbed by ants. Hope the ID is correct!

#13 Along came a really big weevil

#14 Perched up with a pose

#15 And started doing a weevil dance!

#16 Sagita found this really wrinkled longhorned beetle

#17 It decided to rest it’s horns when I went to it’s front to take a head shot

#18 Normal landscape view

#19 Closing in for a passport photo!

#20 A thin, reddish weevil with little mites (?) crawling underneath

The complete album can be viewed here.

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