Flat Bug - BugGuide.Net

Moved

Moved from Mezirinae. There are only five genera so far - hardly seems to be a need for subfamilies. And this is the only image on the subfamily page which has not yet been ID'd to genus. And the subfamily page was just an empty shell without added info, so we deleted it to simplify things. Please feel free to reinsert the subfamily pages if you think there is a real need for them. We do not mean to offend, just trying to simplify.

… john and jane balaban, 2 February, 2009 - 8:33pm

one reason to keep Mezirinae

...is that new submissions can be reasonably expected to be easily IDed to Mezirinae by anyone (the subfamily habitus being peculiar enough) but not to genera (diff. between the two genera within the subfamily are subtle), so without the Mezirinae page obvious mezirines will be doomed to remain at family level and the section will be less informative

… v belov, 2 February, 2009 - 9:26pm

Sounds good to me,

thanks for cleaning up.

… Lynette Schimming, 2 February, 2009 - 8:39pm

It is an Aradidae of the subfamily Mezirinae - I can't quite tell (because of the focus issue), but I suspect is is genus Mezira

… Ceuthophilus, 10 September, 2005 - 3:11pm

It Depends

Lynette, It depends on what kind of camera you have. Most of the better digital cameras give you a choice as to how the focus is set. Your owner's manual should talk about this. There may be one setting for "let the camera choose the focus point," and another for "let me choose the focus point," and maybe another for "focus on whatever is in the exact center." The latter setting may be the most handy. Then all you have to do is get the flat bug centered and snap the picture. Otherwise you should choose "let me select the focus" and you'll need to use some kind of arrow buttons to select the bug as the focus point. Again, the manual will tell you exactly how to select the focus point. Hope this helps!

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com

… Stephen Cresswell, 6 February, 2005 - 6:41am

YES

You know, I thought I already had it set to focus on center...but I found a focus on spot setting that I never knew existed, so I am charging my camera and heading back to get a better shot of that flat bug this afternoon. Thanks for the help. (also my manual is a bit hard to read....it failed to tell me I had to be in program mode to select this option)

… Lynette Schimming, 6 February, 2005 - 9:02am