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A doodle fantasy of a unknown insect (with a surreal touch)of my self made mix of watercolors, Curcumin, black elder and black Chinese ink and graphite of pencils and a light texture with the gesso.With a quotes of Buddha after reading a story . Thanks for the visit.
The insects are interesting in that they always seem to connect back to back and walk around. Very odd. The bug on the left felt unconnected... Taken in the Adelaide Hills. Vivitar (Kiron) 70 - 150 at 150mm F2
Honey bee feeding on potentilla - well on a drop of sugar/honey syrup I'd put there. Focus stacked using zerene
This little girl had emerged from her cell only seconds before! I only had time for a few shots before she staggered off across the frame!
The desaturated look is due to the blurred-out screen I was sitting behind (I tried to use a wide aperture to hide it). The colors suffered but somehow I don't mind the effect in this case.
Rhagonycha Fulva,
Recognised by the black tips to its soft, orange or rust-coloured elytra, this beetle is abundant nearly everwhere May - August;
As in all members of the family, both adults and larvae are predatory, with the adults hunting mainly on flowers,
Order, - Coleoptera,
Family, - Cantharidae,
Species in Family, - 4,000.
Size, - 0.3 - 2 cm,
Feeding, - Larvae; predators, Adults; liquid-feeders ( nectar ), herbivores, predators.
Impact, - Hermless,
A couple more of the local wildlife. This is a Hawk Moth caterpillar. It is as big as my little finger. The head is on the left !
Hummingbird Clearwing moth (Hemaris thysbe) hovering over some flowers at Shakespeare Garden in Central Park, Aug. 2022.
The sunset was beautiful tonight....and was what called me out with camera in hand...but this little insect love affair caught my eye! This is cropped in a bit, but I was really pleased with the results from a very hurried shot taken with the Olympus 12-40.
Could this be an albino nymph spotted lantern fly? He was in the midst of a lot of other nymph spotted lantern flies, ugh.... Looked similar in shape just a little bigger. In Valley Forge National Park, PA
Sadly a foe. See first comment. Thanks Jindrich.
The sun came out this afternoon and through my mind went, bees, snowdrops, camera so out I went for we have many hundreds of snowdrops which the bees and other insects love. They were a-buzz with life but mostly the bees are far too fast for me to catch them, the other insects are a little slower.
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