I'm pretty much a novice at anything other than geometric patterning. I was experimenting with shapes, and they looked like a bug. I looked at Swooshable for help with 180 degree snot-work, and they had a thing with finger hinges that worked decently. It's a bit fragile, but it's all stuck together -- a minor victory. Anyway, I learned something new while making it, so that's good. Now I only have about 15.3 trillion more new things to learn about LEGO. ;-)

I think this is a nymph of the white-margined burrowing bug, Sehirus cinctus. It was nestled in among the leaves, though, so I couldn't get a good look...

Bug captured on cosmos flower, Set the tripod up for this one

Bugs in my backyard.

Have a lovely Saturday and an enjoyable weekend.

Thanks for the visit.

A bug (Oplomus dichorus, Pentatomidae) resting on a madroño (Arbutus sp.) branch.

Canon EOS 90D + Tamron SP AF 90 mm f/2.8 Di Macro 1:1 (272E) + 36 mm Viltrox extension tube and foldable flash diffuser. Single shot. Processed in Darktable.

Spotted by David (dsmphoto) on a recent photo outing, this guy has us completely stumped. I.D. anyone? Lacey? Bueller? (Aw, c'mon, view large, you know you really want to!)

We have several winners of the "i.d. this alien monster bug" contest -- thanks all for identifying this as a Wheel Bug, a darling little creature from the Assassin bug family. Yikes!

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." - Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It's not easy to see, but there are four bugs gathered on the petals of this flower; I imagine they were discussing politics, or where to go to lunch. Maybe they were just gossiping about Sally in accounting. They wouldn't let me in on the conversation, so I really couldn't say with much authority and am completely speculating.

Hope everyone has had a good day.

Click "L" for a larger view.

Chrysanthemum lace bugs

composite of bees, a beetle, and a dragonfly's mouth part.

Laguna de Ruidera, Ciudad Real, Castilla la Mancha, Spain

Bug nymph (about 2-3 mm)

Mitutoyo 7.5x NA 0.21, tube lens: 165mm (Thorlabs)

Illumination: dark field and polarization

A rice stink bug in southwestern bristlegrass...

this old lens still does a respectable job

Hemiptera species

True Bug - Wants

Canon 5D Mark IV + Canon MP-E65 f/2.8 1-5x Macro

Slippery Slope - Lady Bug making the rounds. Natural light with ISO at 8,000, F:13, 1,000 shutter.

Found in Santa Ynez Canyon

You have to look closely to actually see it's head.

Yesterday when I was watching TV, my kid came and told she wanted to show me something. Then she switched off all the lights and changed the TV channel to video mode and held this bugs bunny pillow. I was lucky to capture it immediately using the retro camera.

An attractive little rainforest resident with a bags of character. Unusually for insects some species of shield bugs brood their eggs and guard their young from predators, we don't know if this one does, but we did find him or her particularly engaging.

Photographed in the Danum Rainforest, Sabah, Borneo

I do not know what it is but I call it a Green Bug. It took me ages to think of that.

A bugs life

Of a lovely kind. There are about 130 species of dragonfly to be found here in Ontario, have almost 360 degree vision, and according to mother nature network they've been around for 300 million years!

Originally built as a GP7 for the Illinois Central as IC 8977, this Geep has turned a lot of miles since its manufacture in April 1953.

It was rebuilt in 1971 at the IC's Paducah, KY shops into a GP10, becoming IC 8260 and gaining the characteristic bug-eyed nose headlights.

The locomotive became ICG 8260 before being sold to the Chicago, Central, & Pacific when ICG spun off their Iowa lines in 1985. The next 11 years were spent as CC 8260 and CC 1760 before Illinois Central re-acquired the Iowa lines in 1996.

Eventually, the locomotive was acquired by Railway Switching Services (Railserve), becoming RSSX 8260. Its current assignment is to switch pellet hoppers for Chevron Phillips at their Pasadena Plastics Complex in the Port of Houston.

RSSX GP10 #8260

Pasadena, TX

April 13th, 2025

A little green bug on a stem of grass.

Yeah, couldn't see but glimpses of the eclipse due to intermittent cloud cover, but we did see this enormous bug. And I got close enough to shoot it. I'm still shocked by that particular detail. ;)

Caught this little one yesterday morning, Cant resist a pic of the Lady Bug. Messing with Extension tubes and a ring flash..

river Bug in infrared

Something a little different.. This was made with a new Action from PanosFX.. He does very nice Actions and at a reasonable price too...

Petaluma, CA

The Volkswagen Bug is rarely seen these days. When I was young you could hardly go anywhere and not see one.

A Cold and Windy Morning,and the Bugs are not Moving.

Bugs often gets into this pose where he is miaowing in a soft way and looking directly at me. This conveys to me that he wants my attention.

My old compact camera Panasonic LZ-2 (2005) can make great shots

Happy silver wedding anniversary to Zenas M

We're Here: Silvery

(and a nod to yesterday's theme which I couldn't play; I found Bugs in a skip today; I don't own a teddy bear...)

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it's running; that high pitched bug noise they make.

Once again, its back to bugs.