This is my first time capturing insects, all of these compositions are with macro converter added to standard 18-55mm lens.

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Beaverdam Swamp

Spotted:

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This fly seems to consider throwing itself off the leaf, having to bear a mite larger than its head.

bzyg prążkowany

slug moth caterpillar

Feeding on newly blossoming plants

eating all the trees

Only had my phone with me for this shot. Better than nothing.

A nest of bees right out on our house wall

Prarie Grove Glades NP

Dungeness RSPB.

Insect robot build after the description in Oreilly Make Arduino Bots and Gadgets

Detail: Just a quick working model hold together with tape velcro and cable binders ;-) Big eyes wrking with ultra sonic to measure the distance to avoid obstacles.

Video of V 0.0.1.2 here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHLnzWc7X3I

More pictures and another video here: xinchejian.com/2011/04/11/insect-robot-from-lumi/

Ex pupae emerged 27 February 1988 . Hasselblad 500CM 150 Sonnar + 55mm tube F22 500th 2 Metz 402 flashes at 1.5 feet . Ectachrome 64 colour slide.

Insects and a moth on dandelions at the Solway on Friday

Macro Shots of Insects

A handsome male Synacra brachialis parasitoid wasp of the Belytinae, Diapriidae found under birch in the garden. Additional pictures below show details. Note 'beak-like' long straight mandibles, scape length is one and a half times the eye height, petiole covered in dense pubescence, notauli fully developed.

Digital camera

An Ichneumon wasp found in the garden. It is one of the Ichneumoninae subfamily, and thanks are owed to Jaswinder Boparai for identifying it as Stenichneumon culpator. The blunt tooth on hind coxa is diagnostic. Additional pictures below show a bit more detail.

Ladybugs on leaves.

Deeside.

On a butterfly weed in my side garden.

Unknown Insect

Devil’s Run, Dolan Falls, Val Verde Co., TX

September 6, 2003

Public Domain Image by Christopher Johnson

Part of the "Insects Unlocked" Project

University of Texas at Austin

STROBIST : this one was taken with one off camera speedlight YN560 II , triggered with a cactus v5, on a light stand, with a homemade (with love) softbox just above the flower.

I shot with my Canon 7d and my Sigma 18 35 mm 1,8 (love this lens!)

HSV Botanical Garden

Image of an insect acquired and colorized by high school student Jacob Siverstein.

Courtesy of Mrs. Alyssa Waldron , Bergen County Technical Schools

Image Details

Instrument used: Quanta SEM

Insect

phasmido (insecto palo)

Insects (Class Insecta) are a major group of arthropods and the most diverse group of animals on the Earth, with over a million described species—more than half of all known living organisms—with estimates of undescribed species as high as 30 million, thus potentially representing over 90% of the differing life forms on the planet.

Gli insetti rappresentano all'incirca l'80% dell'intero regno animale; se ne conoscono più di un milione di specie ed il numero è destinato ad incrementare di giorno in giorno col procedere della ricerca entomologica.

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