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Her wings are growing and she'll be off exploring before too ling. 7/29/2023

Nikon D3, lens 200 F4 macro.

Glanville Fritillary (Melitaea cinxia), Velebit Mountains, Croatia

Immediately after I took this photo, he leaped the two feet separating us and landed on my camera. That was the end of our photo shoot.

its not very often i get 3 different insects in a shot and there all in focus f22 might have helped

I made another trip to FCPP. The weather was better than the previous day. These are just a few of the gems found at the park.

 

Thanks everyone for your views, comments and faves. They are greatly appreciated!

Member of syrphidae family (Czech: Pestřenky).

Common Darter - River Lark, Mildenhall, Suffolk.

Natural Bridges State Park, Santa Cruz CA

When the sun went down, this Japanese beetle did bad things to my strawberry plant

These little insect eggs are on an Ivy leaf in our backyard....

I wonder what they are going to be?

Spiders ???

un peu rare à cette saison, on les voit plus au début de l'été, voire au printemps.

www.inra.fr/opie-insectes/pdf/i148brulin.pdf

www.bestioles.ca/insectes/ephemeres.html

www.bestioles.ca/insectes/ephemeres.html

www.insectesjardins.com/Ephemeroptera.htm

foret-fontainebleau.over-blog.net/article-l-ephemere-l-in...

Wikipédia: [Les éphémères constituent le groupe d'insectes ailés le plus primitif et, du point de vue phylogénétique, représente le groupe frère de tous les autres ordres insectes ailés. Près de 2 500 espèces sont recensées dans le monde, répartis en sept familles. Insectes de tailles moyenne à petite, ils sont associés au milieu aquatique où les femelles pondent leurs œufs.

Les adultes (dits en France « mouches de mai ») sont connus pour avoir une durée de vie très courte (leurs pièces buccales atrophiées ne leur permettant pas de se nourrir) contrairement aux larves qui peuvent subsister jusqu'à trois années. Celles-ci sont aquatiques et peuvent être phytophages, détritophages ou carnivores.]

The wheel bug eating a piece of banana.

 

I found a wheel bug on my porch steps, so I moved it over to the railing just to see what it would do. It walked around near the praying mantis (in the other photo) and then it found the banana. Neither bug seemed to pay any attention to the other being near by.

 

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The wheel bug (Arilus cristatus), in the family Reduviidae, is one of the largest terrestrial true bugs in North America, being up to 1.5 inches, or 38 mm, in length; it is the only member of its genus.

 

The bite of a wheel bug is painful and may take months to heal (sometimes leaving a small scar), so caution is highly advised when handling them. The reproductive cycle of the wheel bug initiates in autumn - now!

I got an Insect Hotel for Christmas - just got to wait and see who moves in or visits!

Nature in different locations

Laphria saffrana

Big Creek Scenic Area

with a bee fly as prey item

Sam Houston National Forest

San Jacinto Co., Texas

14 April 2011

Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)

 

Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary, Saanich, BC

  

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