Seen in the garden

Grasshopper in my garden. 2022

Palomena prasina, la punaise verte

Newly emerged plant bug. Campyloneura virgula

detail - work in progress

In our terrace garden

Feasting on the pollen!

Nice fly . . .

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

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a backlit view of a common darter dragonfly

Gryllus

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.)

Scraptiidae.

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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.

From moth trap, my garden, North Lincolnshire

At last after 5 years I`ve finally found a Shropshire Wasp spider,only ever seen them in Dorset,quite a rarity

About 2 cm in length

on strands of plastic netting around the raised beds in our garden. North of Watsons Corners, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

Nikon D700 | 105mm AIS

Tachinid Fly feeding on a Maiden Veil or Stinkhorn fungi, Phallus indusiatus. As the fungi decays it smells like rotting meat so attracts a variety of insects that feed on it, and at its decaying peak it is such a huge insect magnet.

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an explorer of his world

Insecto (Macro)

Bembix sp. wasp

Ptilotus benlii was being visited by many insects.

Spotted just outside the entrance to our cottage.

6785

That's the ID I came up with based on the crescent on the far right of the lower wing and the orange-tipped antennae, but they're not supposed to be found here.

MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA

The emergence of life. If you scroll through fast, it's like you can see them crawling out. About 400 eggs are laid, and about 200 babies emerge. The eggs hatch after about two weeks inside the egg sac. But the babies don't come out for about another two weeks. Feeding on each other so only the strong survive. Morbid, but fasinating.

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Hat Yai, Thailand

This is a generic photo of a cockroach dead on its back.

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