The beautiful female Ormyrid parasitoid wasp on release back into the wilds of the garden (close up pictures in previous post). She preened for a while and got herself warmed in the sunshine before heading off to freedom.

I couldn't decided on the b&w or the color version.

Woodhouse Washlands.

30 April 2010

View On Black

Sweetpotato bug

Here is the back of my insect book inspired by Christopher Marley's Pheromone, an amazing book of photographed insects. I got his permission to post my sketches.

I thought I'd start 2017 off with some insect shots for a change.

Location: Philippines (North Central Mindanao near Malaybalay City, Bukidnon)

Family:

Genus:

Species:

As always,

Thanks for visiting,

suggestions and comments are welcome.

Yes, I went to a farm park and owl sanctuary, and ended up taking pictures of flies. Flickr has influenced my life.

HFDF!

Komuranon 90mm enlarging lens on Bronica bellows.

39 shots stacked using Affinity Photo.

I photographed my insects without posing them or placing them within scenes because they're intended to be eventually uploaded to entomology websites.

Designed & folded by me.

The base is the same as Neptunus beetle.

Orange Sulphur on yellow.

#EmptySpaces at the Insect Hotel (Flickr Friday: Empty Spaces)

pictureblog.co.uk/emptyspaces-at-the-insect-hotel

Alameda, CA

Not many insects around at the moment, but we have some large and not very active flies in the house.

Have not made an attempt to classify this species. It is a rather large insect, body size approx 2 cm. Insect-on-glass-111014(1)

Beaverdam Swamp

Photo taken in my garden.

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Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire

It seems that many of the insects in the insectarium were arranged by color. The moth at bottom is not a close relative to the mantid above. On the other hand their colors seem to complement each other.

I SAID I have a HEADACHE.

Two black-and-white wasps

Doing the hokey pokey

On a peony

filmed at lunch time :) (sorry about the noise but besides the wind there were so many Planes flying low this area is close to the airport.)

Una Mantide a Pranzo Scusate per il rumore ma questa zona è vicino al aeroporto

Le machaon (Papilio machaon) - Papilionidae

Ephippiger ephippiger - Bradyporidae

la vie en rose

Cethosia cyane euanthes

Prachantakham, Prachinburi, Thailand

couple of hours with the macro

sweet dragon

Mallard duckling

In Årsta, behind the suburban idyll, an invasion is ongoing. A clump of trees have slowly become enveloped in a white net. If you look closer you see that it's moving. (100% Iphoneography) at Årsta Stockholm