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Unknown insect species, near Cabo Matapulo, Bosque del Cabo, Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas Prov., Costa Rica, 29 Jul 2004
Species of beefly? Any ID suggestions greatly appreciated? Photographed in August 2007.
Santa Fe National Forest, New Mexico, USA.
©bryanjsmith.
This awsome insect was found at the top of the main range that runs through Yathong Nature Reserve. I am still to identify it to species
Mané-magro (Caeliphera - Proscopiidae) - Foto feita em Campinas SP.
Canon Rebel XT - Objetiva Canon 100mm 2.8 Macro - Flash Canon 430EX + difusor
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Stick Grasshopper - Taken in Campinas city - Brazil
A female Mymar pulchellum parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae family found in birch in the garden. Have only found males thus far, hence very pleased to find a female in the same location. Additional pictures below can all be viewed larger with a click. Note the hindwing is reduced to a mere filament that is no more than a quarter the length of that fabulous forewing, and in the second last picture below you can see the hamuli that link the hindwing to the forewing.
Possibly a Grass Veneer of some sort, but all these things look the same to me, and my poor photography doesn't help.
This was day flying (or at least easily disturbed) in an upland habitat of mixed grass, gorse and bracken. HMM!
This is an odd posting: Disappointing photos. Today, while waiting for my wife to fetch me from the ophthalmologist, I stopped to gawk at bees busily bouncing about flowers for nectar. Hundreds of them gathered and proved no threat to me as I closed in and captured 20 shots, using iPhone XS.
Grumble. Can the Apple cameras do no better than this and the next two, which are the best of a bad lot? I experimented with standard and Portrait modes—and all the pics look artificial at best, and not sharp enough at worst.
On this first of the trio, composition kind of works because of the similar position of the flying bee in the foreground and the one in the blurred background. That’s the only quality redeeming the photo for me.
This was a nice try, this insect is less than 1/4" long, and flies quite fast. I don't know its name, but it flies like a hummingbird, so it almost stays in the same place for few seconds, I tried to capture it, and those are the best shots, I still have a lot to learn.
Sony Alpha 100
Quantaray 70-300mm F/4-5.6 macro mode
© Nida van Leersum.
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I should have looked at this closely with the naked eye. I have no idea what to make of the gauzy material coating the flower and the insect.
I wish i could explain how my joy knew no bounds after clicking these pics with the constant fear of a bee which was sitting on the same plant.
a Coccophagus obscurus parasitoid wasp of the Aphelinidae family found in bay in the garden. Additional pictures below can all be viewed larger with a click. Note no glabrous band on wing, eight antennal segments and three segment clava, short rostriform stigmal vein, scutellum with one pair of long bristles on posterior margin plus numerous short setae over entire scutellum, black body with all dark coxae.