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I think that red&black thing is the exact same species as your seed bug. Somehow I failed to get an in-focus top photo of one showing the actual markings.
Hawk moth is great. All the moths in Greece tended to be dull brown ones and none of the butterflies stayed still for long enough to photograph. Though were also less colourful than British ones.
Can anyone identify this very cool spider? I took about 200 photos of it, none of which I've managed to successfully stack yet.
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A few more I got round to editing. The cicada head is a stack made from about 30 images - found it drowned in swimming pool so could move it round more.
Not having much luck with handheld stacks so far. I made a stack of the mantis head as well, but it looked worse than this individual still. I'm terrible at keeping a steady hand.
Things I've learnt so far - I should probably get a little macro tripod with a slider thing rather than trying to make do with a beanbag. I should stop ignoring cleaning my lens/sensor. My flash diffuser isn't great - have just bought a can of pringles to DIY a better one out of.