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.

Forest Kingfisher catches a cricket. For those who follow cricket, the game, that's a good catch!

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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.

Earth Day 2023

Giornata della Terra

cerchiamo di non distruggerla ...

Tettigoniidae

Dark bush-cricket

Pholidoptera griseoaptera - nymph

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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.

Un grand merci à toutes et tous pour vos visites, favoris et commentaires.

Thank you so much for viewing, faving, commenting my images

A cricket in Greece.

Cricket on a red rose.

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Have a good one

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

Cricket is undoubtedly the most popular game played in the subcontinent. .

Taken while exploring "Time Remains"

E-M1 MK111/100-400mm.

Morowski Glass Studio

Flamingo Gardens

Bowie, MD

Speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) female perched on a false Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus inserta) leaf.

Samica wątlika charłaja (Leptophyes punctatissima) siedząca na liściu winobluszczu zaroślowego (Parthenocissus inserta).

Still on my Garden safari...….clearly not a macro lens but I like it

Wisbech

I found this very poignant; a mud splashed cricket ball left on a new grave.

7/100x: The 2023 Edition

52 in 2023 challenge: dirty.

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

Speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima) on a rusty wire mesh fence.

Wątlik charłaj (Leptophyes punctatissima) na zardzewiałym sietkowym parkanie.

Large cricket on a broad bean pod .

In my garden today

Lyme Regis Dorset

Claws are handy to use as anchors.

Not an expert on crickets, but I think this is a Speckled Bush Cricket. I was so delighted to find this fella as only the other day I was bemoaning the fact that we don't hear crickets chirping up here int he frozen north. He as a perfect model. jumped onto my hand and then sprang gracefully onto a green bean leaf. Wouldn't keep his antenna still however.

Have a great Sunday folks.

Luckily the cat is shut inside!

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

Great green bush-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

On a ruellia in the field...

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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