Ladybird on the wattle, so bright it hasn't any chance of hiding.

Quelques insectes

Taken on a trip to nhm Tring. A collection of phtos of stick insects, grasshoppers and moths

The larger of the two Katydids seemed a little confrontational today :o) 7/23/2021

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insects

There is a tree growing in a neighbouring yard whose boughs reach over into my garden. I noticed that ants are farming some sort of godawful aphid or whatever on its terminal sprigs.

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Some insect on a leaf

Shot taken at Nehru garden, Kothagiri

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insecte famille des collemboles (symphypleone)

Photographed in Glasgow

Samsung Smart Camera NX300

Fresh Green Hairstreak, taken at Glen Moss SWT, Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire

Macro

Drosera tracyi

This is another one of our carnivorous plants, in the sundew group. You can see the tiny hairs glistening with a sticky substance, designed to catch prey for food. The leaves are tall, thin, and light green, and the large stands of them are easily seen on the roadsides, shining with the light caught on the glands.

A constant companion and routine each time we stepped outside.

Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire

A brimstone butterfly, photographed in Stapleford Park, Leicestershire, UK.

Samsung camera pictures

Polistes dominula - Vernazza Italy 27/03/2023

HSV Botanical Garden

Robber flies catch their prey in mid flight. They then squeeze the unfortunate victim with their strong legs before inserting a proboscis into the prey and literally suck it dry leaving just a dry casing.

Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire

This mating pair of stick insects crash-landed on my car when it was parked in bushland; they do fly while conjoined, but very badly. See 'Stick Insects 1482' nearby for the same pair after lurching off into more natural habitat. They are possibly the Black-striped Stick Insect, Austrosipyloidea carterus. Townsville hinterland, April 2010.

Fossil insects in amber. Photographed by transmitted light wit ha digital camera held up to the eyepiece of a simple school microscope.

Stick insect

think this may have been a failed nest, or just the queens nest as it was very small....

Sunlight from the left, SB 600 off camera from the right.

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A dead centipede found in the Bank of North America collection

wings of a yellow dragonfly. i took this shot while exhibiting (and attempting to sell) my photographs at an arts & crafts fair on cape cod. this beautiful yellow dragonfly flew into my tent, but landed on the white mesh side panel of my booth, which was a poor background for capturing his image. i shooed him to see if he would land on one of my photographs, but he took off to the booth across from mine, which happened to sell stained glass items. He took up residence on a stained glass christmas candle where I took several shots of him from behind, looking toward my booth. this shot is one of the macros of the bottom set of wings and part of the trunk. The yellow in this photograph is the dragonfly, not stained glass.