A pair of Steel-blue Cricket Hunter Wasps circled my yard for several days. The only place they would stop was on the orange flowers of the Butterfly Weed.

They strongly resemble Blue Mud Dauber Wasps, which have a longer pedicel (the "stalk" that connects their thorax to their abdomen).

Butterfly Weed is a native plant species, and my favorite Michigan wildflower. Ironically, I have never seen a butterfly land on the flowers, although it does attract a variety of wasps and hornets.

I spotted this cricket, hiding in plant. It's missing one of his legs, but that didn't seem to bother him in keeping the balance and to jump away after a little while.

The garden had baby crickets all over it . The Ranunculus has a few chew spots where the cricket snacked on it.

Have a wonderful day.

As has happened several times in the past few summers, I discovered a grasshopper on a houseplant, which I carefully brought onto the terrace and placed on the echinacea. I put a few drops of water on the flower and the little guy drank and later nibbled on one of the flower petals.

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Court Hey Park Liverpool july 2020

The crickets are getting a bit bigger, this one stopped to pose : ))

good details when viewed up close

Have a good one

Parc natural dels Aiguamolls de l'Empordà (Catalunya) Spain

A white fence encircling the cricket oval, that at first sight looked like a picket fence. On closer inspection, the fence turned out to be tubular aluminium.

The horizontal lines in the background is a corrugated iron walls of a transportable building with an alternate view of the oval, likely for sporting commentators.

Another conundrum, so when the sport cricket was invented, what on Earth was the thought process? 😶

BAM 0998

These two have been snuggle buddies for a long while.

This and the following four photos were shot in this order over a three-minute period.

(#1 of 5)

E-M1 MK111/100-400mm.

A cool looking Cricket that I photographed in Pennsylvania.

Morowski Glass Studio

Flamingo Gardens

Explore #166

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Wisbech

If you zoom in, you can see what I assume to be cricket legs barely out of the corners of it’s mouth.

Claws are handy to use as anchors.

In my garden today

Lyme Regis Dorset

Luckily the cat is shut inside!

This little guy was just sunning himself on my shed door! Such a pretty green and so translucent.

Criquet/Cricket

I used to play as a child, I still love to watch the game and now my children play I often watch their matches.

Thanks for stopping

Nice big cricket getting fat on the beans ! Took him off the beans and left him on the sweet potatoes.

Tettigonia viridissima (Nimfa - Ninfa - Nymph)

La cavalletta verde dalle lunghe antenne, più imparentata con i grilli che con le locuste

Dedicated to John Carson Essex UK.

Thanks to him for bringing

♥ Flowers or Insects - MACROS ONLY

to a new life !!!

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Stonebarrow Hill Dorset

Sirmione, Lake Garda

Regua , Atlantic Rainforest , Brazil

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Daisy and tiny green cricket from archives.

The cricket had already chewed on a petal.

A bit dark but you can still see the cricket.

Have a good one

(Oecanthus fultoni), also known as the thermometer cricket makes an occasional appearance on mild days in the winter. They live inside tree trunks close to the ground for a warmer micro-environment. Its antennae are disproportionately longer than its body. We were trying out a X10 extension tube on our Sony.

taken at Crestwick Island.

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