Love is in the air, or I should say on the Oat grass kernels!
I walked by several stands of Oat grass before I noticed they were covered in Soldier Beetles looking for mates or already engaged in the mating ritual. Usually I would prefer to use my 105mm macro lens for insects, but I had my birding lens with me, so I used it at full zoom extension- 400mm. It blurred out the sunny background while producing sharp rendering of the beetles, which were in bright shade.
Very happy with how this turned out, and I imagine there will be many more Soldier beetles as a result of the many couplings happening that evening :)
