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All I know is that when I moved from the (minolta) 100mm to the (minolta) 200mm I saw a huge improvement in bokeh.

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Am sure you are right. From the one quick shot I've had of a 180mm the OOF areas just seemed "dreamier" Will get round to doing a proper side by side comparison one of these days.

Was very difficult to handhold such a long lens so would probably force me to take a tripod more often....which might not be a bad thing either! (the spider shot above was on a tripod as it was a several second exposure but the mayfly was handheld. The mayfly shot was actually taken not long after I'd seen your mayfly shot...it came down and landed next to me on a blade of grass and I couldn't resist )

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The top (an Empusa - not mantis religiosa!) is direct from my K-M 7D so that's an APS C sensor.

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Can see your shots better on the PC now....thanks for sharing Was that mantis wild in the UK? I've never seen a real one. Nice find! (and well photographed )

I still think that butterfly shot is a touch of class