On August 22, Zhou Anti-Mei photographed insects at Wuzhi Mountain. Hainan Daily reporter Li Tianping photographed
Green bees
Hainan Daily reporter Li Mengyao
Towering trees are towering and invisible, and the rare beasts in the depths of the dense forest are haunted, and the tropical rainforest in the impression always seems to be dazzling.
On August 22, the Hainan Daily Newspaper Group "walked into the national park and visited the tropical rainforest" all-media interview group came to the Wuzhishan National Nature Reserve, and tried to use this angle to talk with the rainforest, and was able to see the "faces of all beings" in the microscopic world.
On the same day, the interview group visited Wuzhi Mountain, and met the macro photographer Zhou Anti-Beauty on the mountain to collect wind, and the two groups of people immediately walked together.
Yellow Star Mulberry Celestial Bull
Wax cicadas
Just a few steps away, Zhou Yimei stopped in front of a grassy field. "You see, there are two bugs here." Before everyone could react, Zhou Yimei's entire body had already fallen down, holding up a special modified camera, and the lens was only two or three centimeters away from the two bugs.
As if not sensing the human approach, the two hemiptera insects rested comfortably against a blade of grass motionless, which caused him to delay pressing the shutter. After waiting so persistently for nearly 10 minutes, Zhou Fengmei suddenly pressed the shutter several times, and the scene of the two bugs mating was instantly magnified hundreds of times in the camera, and the red tentacles raised high, the black compound eyes, and even the small fluff on the legs were clearly visible, causing everyone to exclaim.
Dead leaf butterfly
Beetleflies
Zhou Yimei led everyone deeper into the meadow. Perhaps alarmed by human footsteps, a grasshopper suddenly jumped out. Zhou Yingmei shook from side to side and slowly leaned over, but he just fell down and the little guy jumped up again. "Little grasshopper don't run, take a beautiful picture of you." "You run me to chase" lasted for more than 10 minutes, Zhou Anti-Mei patiently "discussed" with it, but it was also magical, the little guy really stayed in place this time, obediently waiting to enter the camera.
An egg on the dry grass, a beetle in the crack of the stone, a group of ladybugs on the back of the leaves, Zhou Yingmei's eyes seemed to be particularly "poisonous", and in a short time, seven or eight kinds of insects were found on this small grass.
Seeing that Zhou Was anti-American gained a lot, the members of the interview group were suddenly interested and took out their cameras and mobile phones. But the pose was in place, but the worm was gone.
"You have to get closer, insects are sensitive to fast-moving objects, and if you lean over slowly, they will most likely not escape." Hearing Zhou Anti-American's experience, some people suddenly began to slowly crouch down in slow motion, and some people simply lay motionless on the ground.
"Hey, I got it" "I did it too"... After a period of silence, the interview group finally sent a "good news". Looking around one by one, I found that although the equipment of the interview group was not as good as the professional macro photography equipment of Zhou Anti-American, it still recorded the posture of the little guys: a pair of Chinese tiger armor with huge compound eyes, a golden flower worm wearing armor, and a flying celestial bull...
When we zoom in on these little creatures that we have always overlooked in our past lives by hundreds of times, we will find that they are showing the beauty of breathtaking detail: vivid colors, clear veins, delicate and often flashing metallic textures.
Blue phoenix butterfly larvae
Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park System Pilot Area Wuzhi Mountain Forest Area. Hainan Daily reporter Li Tianping photographed
In Zhou Fengmei's view, insects almost all the aesthetic characteristics of living things are integrated, and with the power of macro lenses, the complete portraits of these small creatures can be fully revealed.
There are many rare insects in the rainforest, and there are more strange-looking insects. "Shortly after I first came to Wuzhishan, I photographed a very special kind of cicada in the rainforest, and after sending it to the circle of friends, it quickly attracted the interest of an entomology expert friend." Zhou Saidmei said that after several years of research comparison, experts confirmed that this is a new species of hemiptera wax cicada family, and in 2019 it was named "Brahma wax cicada" and officially published in the international academic journal "Journal of Insect Taxonomy".
This experience made Zhou Anti-Mei extremely excited, and he became more and more aware that the Hainan tropical rainforest hid too many possibilities.
After photographing a large number of insects that could not even be named in this three or four square meters of grass, the group finally got up, only to find that most of the day had passed. (This newspaper Wuzhishan, August 25, 2016)
The insect pictures in this group are all taken by Zhou Anti-American
Original title: Rainforest Exploration: Lying Down to Talk to Insects