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Budai Arborétum

Teppes de Verbois

HSV Botanical Garden

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

Beautiful rose with a Beetle and Bee

An insect hotel is a man made structure designed to attract a variety of insects.

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Wheeler NWR

Common Darter - River Lark, Mildenhall, Suffolk.

White Springs Dike

Natural Bridges State Park, Santa Cruz CA

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

a pretty green one

INSECT

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

I wonder what they are going to be?

Spiders ???

Hickory Cove NP

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!

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Ex larva, emerged from pupa 2 March 1988 . Hasselblad 500CM 150 Sonnar+ 55 tube F22 500th 2 Metz 402 flashes at 1.5 feet Ectachrome 64 slide.

Blue Dasher (Pachydiplax longipennis)

Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary, Saanich, BC

The tinest, the cutest and the weirdest one i've ever seen. Probably just less than half an inches..yup..about that..cool..