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this is probably the luckiest shot i have ever taken. i was just going for the rain drops on the leaf, but later, as i was looking through my photos from that day, i saw that this bug had flown in for a drink while i wasn't paying attention.
Lady bugs on a hill top. Taken in North Eastern Corsica, looking towards Tuscany. It reminds me of the movie "under the tuscan sun," because of the ladybug thread to the movie.
Bugs come in different shapes and sizes. This is a small ant, so the "dirt bug" is only 3-4mm. It comes with legs and looks strange when walking.
Here was another cute little butterfly-like bug on our forsythia. These most recent three were shot with the Olympus E-510 and a 35mm Macro lens
Guava stand-up bug.
This is an odd little guy about 1/4" long and almost as wide that we found sitting on a white guava fruit. When you got near to him, he would rear up on his back feet and just stand there with all his little legs outspread -- see photo that follows (I tried getting a video of it, but I just couldn't get my camera to focus close enough to see much detail). After about a minute, he would ease back down onto his belly .... until the next time something got too close.
This side view of the fat stubby caterpillar shows the two back sticking legs and the thinner front legs, as well as all the spines.
Note: I did not touch this fellow as his spikes looked more like those of the Darna pallivitta (Stinging Nettle Caterpillar) who has a painful sting, rather than like the Agraulis vanillae (Gulf fritillary), whose spikes are actually soft and harmless.
There was a bug on the awning outside Blossom Cafe. We think it was a cricket. Lucky for the guy below that it didn't fall into his Pho. It took all my will to not look up at it as we left the restaurant. Because looking up may have alerted patio diners to its existence.
I wish my air conditioner worked so I could close my windows and crazy bugs would stop getting in my house. And FYI, I captured this little guy and sent him safely on his way outside. (22/365)