I'd like to know the answers to Mr Anderson's questions too. I was watching a bug just today hopping around and never landing for very long on any one spot. Extraordinary job !!!!
Well ; some do get away :-) .
But the key is patience and choosing the right time : i like to go out for bugs when it is light but no sun or after the rain , but anytime when it is light and cool is good ( they are less active then ).
95% of my macro shots is with a tripod ( this one isn't )
After a while you also get better at sneaking up on them .
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes