found this interesting bug in the driveway this morning

insect dead

escarabajos / beetles

a Microterys seyon wasp of the Encyrtidae in the pomegranate bush in the garden - these beautiful wasps are a regular sight in autumn and winter but never seem to see them in high summer.

Another in my series of back porch insects. These are taken at night with mostly my 200mm Nikon micro lens & flash.

Chicago, Illinois

Lygaeus creticus - Vernazza Italy 27/03/2023

How insects are helpful

Neurothemis fluctuans female dragonfly....very friendly.

The light colored bg was my palm :D...you can imagine how friendly that dragonfly was.

Give me an opinion on this pic. thanks

Meads and IJAM

It is less than 1cm in size.

Insect

Emerald, QLD, Australia

Fighting over a cute little female fly, no doubt. This started life as a flame from Michael Bourne's Goldig script but it was joined by a few extra parts and a weighted field too.

Created with JWildfire 5.60 - Thanks so much Andreas!

Also, thanks to Michael Bourne for all your wonderful scripts.

Bourdon butinant les fleurs du jardin-2

Grasshopper

This big ass wold spider crawled into my bedroom, then died in the middle of my bed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_spider

(after my wife sprayed it with a can of insect killer while I cowered in the other room like a baby)

A friend is someone who knows you well enough to bring you a dead dragonfly to photograph. Thank you, Liz

Garden Wall, Guernsey, Channel Islands.

Eriothrix rufomaculata

I just cannot get enough of these guys on the rare occasion I get one to pose for me.

Close-up of the face of a stick insect. Focus stacking from 7 handheld shots.

Canon 7D Mk. II + Sigma 105mm f/2.8 + LED ring flash.

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Juillet 2014