Maintaining an arm’s length, social distancing of Insectdom

[Prajwal J Ullal]

ID: Non Biting midge

Usually seen, atleast in my case, next to the mangrove areas, these non-biting midges seem to follow the new norm of social distancing, maintaining an arm’s length distance from each other. These midges seemed to be picking up the underside of the leaves to rest out, and for some reason these two had selected this leaf for resting, eventually though, the other midge moved out and flew off. Usually confused with the nasty mosquitos, these pale beauties are generally hated and mostly killed off while they venture into the homes surrounding the mangrove areas, even though the name literally suggests them to be non-biting ones, but less awareness lead to killing of these beauties

EXIF:
Canon 80D
Canon 100mm macro
F/11
Shutterspeed 1/160
ISO 400

Handheld, External flash fired

Location: Thane

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Prajwal,
Interesting image and info! Is it a large crop? Often while clicking this tiny creatures light becomes a challenge. Thanks for sharing.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

It can be quite difficult for the eye to differentiate between them and mosquitos. They look so similar :(. I feel a bit less space at the bottom would be nice. Thanks for sharing the detailed info.

[Prajwal J Ullal]

Had cropped down the frame roughly by 10%