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"The Phasmatodea (also known as Phasmida or Phasmatoptera) are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects, stick-bugs, walking sticks or bug sticks. They are generally referred to as phasmatodeans, phasmids, or ghost insects. Phasmids in the family Phylliidae are called leaf insects, leaf-bugs, walking leaves, or bug leaves. The group's name is derived from the Ancient Greek φάσμα phasma, meaning an apparition or phantom, referring to their resemblance to vegetation while in fact being animals. Their natural camouflage makes them difficult for predators to detect."
Chrysis cf ignita
Ruby-tailed Wasp
Goldwespe
Guldhveps
Guldsteklar
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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If you like my pictures of insects in flight, you should visit my special website on insect flight:
Wenn Ihnen meine Bilder fliegender Insekten gefallen, besuchen Sie bitte meine Homepage speziell zu diesem Thema:
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Ants keep herds of blackfly and greenfly. They take them to prime feeding sites and protect them from predators like ladybirds. They stroke them and milk their sap sucking "cattle" for honeydew which the flies excrete.
Blackflies and greenflies give birth to live young and do not need a male. The ant at top left is carrying a newly born blackfly.
Insects (species unknown – other than a beetle and a bee) are often found as part of the observations of flowers; also whiles working with one an intruder may show up and depart as quickly; an attempt to illustrate this as it happened while I was doing the close up work on the Holly hock flower. September 30 2016.
Fall is rapidly approaching and the birds are assembling for their migration south, but I'm not ready to give up on summer just yet!
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