Sedum flower with an Insect

Taken using the 7artisans MF 60mm f2.8

One of the larger hoverflies- shot with my 70-300mm APO lens in macro mode

HSV Botanical Garden

Slightly better photo's from different angles whilst walking around my table.

Molting Hoverfly in flight

Seen in the garden

Palomena prasina, la punaise verte

Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation

Paris :Fortin, Masson et cie,[1836-1849]

biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2516420

detail - work in progress

In our terrace garden

Ex pupa . Insect emerged on 8 July 1987 .Olympus OM2N camera Tamron SP 70-210mm F32-22 60th 2 Metz 402 flashes at 2 feet. Kodachrome 64 slide.

Dragonfly closeup

Shot in my garden Southern England

Nice fly . . .

Advanced honey bee training. It took about 5 minutes before one of the honey bees worked it out and started feeding in flight

Nikon D700 + Nikkor AFS-105mm + Nikon SB700 + Macro Diffuser

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sony a6000, sigma 90/2.8 macro

Number 40 for 52 in 2021 : Discarded

Erythromma lindenii

Pokaljungfer

// Insects //

Here's another view of this little 1/2' beauty. The colors and patterns are just amazing.

Thanks to Mark Schall for the ID www.flickr.com/photos/32946513@N08/

Dictyophara europaea - Dictyopharidae

This little moth was just hanging out in the flower bed. 6/10/2022

A rather beautiful Pachyneuron solitarium parasitoid wasp of the Pteromalidae found in the garden birch tree. Additional pictures below showing the important clypeus areas and wing veins. Love the metallic texturing of these, must do more with Pteromalids (but probably won't.)

Sun is coming

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Spring insects are still few and far between in my own garden this year but yesterday this fantastic hoverfly came in to land on one of my plants.

Fine gauge wire is shaped into a wing and then covered and attached to two layers of fabric (organza and organdie) using tiny overcast stitches and a single strand of thread. Veins are then added using blending filament thread.