Kensington Metro Park, MI

splendido insetto (?) / beautiful insect (?)

insects use colours to trap their prey and this one is really very attractive.

Nasutitermes corniger. Termitidae. Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Soldiers emerging from a broken section of a runway. They squirt a sticky distasteful fluid from a gland in their nozzle-shaped heads.

Was on the side of the road trying to take photos of the Autumn foliage when I noticed some wildflowers. I leaned into take a few pics of these late-bloomers and a honey bee showed up. I was in the right place at the right time.

No fear!! >>>>>hehehe

A red admiral butterfly (Vanessa gonerilla) in my garden at Ranfurly, Otago, NZ.

Chinche

Adventure Sri Lanka - Event 6 at Kalpitiya & Nawadamkulama

Hawthorne Shield Bug.

Crawling on one of our windows.

Malachite beetle

Submit to the photo contest at dnr.maryland.gov/photocontest

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Mealybugs and ants on a new shoot of my Queen of the Night cactus.

Unkown insect, photographed near the Riviera Maya coast, on the grounds of the Grand Sirenis resort, between Playa del Carmen and Tulum, in Mexico. EDIT: Identified as a froghopper by Michael Marlow. Thanks!

Tamron SP Di 90mm F/2.8 Macro, Raynox DCR-250 and off camera Yongnuo YN-560 III. Quite a crop on this one - that thing was small!

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Sitting on our front door. I can see Jesus crucified on its back.

This was on our table

Two walking-stick insects mating in a garden in McDonald's Corners, Ontario Canada. The small brown one is the male and the much larger green one is the female.

Insects - Centi, Arni and a big one.

insect bug macro picture flash green creature antenna legs feet eye focus spotted

Caught in my Moth trap July last year. Had one in my kitchen last night.

Approx 100 mm from tail (bottom) to extended fore-legs (top of picture). A truely amazing insect! (From the Chatham Islands).

St. Paul's Millpond, Ricaud's Branch Rd, Kent County, MD. Rock Hall quad. 6 August 2010. On Common Milkweed.

Fossil insect wing from the Westphalian B (Upper Carboniferous) of Westhoughton, Lancashire, England, UK.

donno what exactly it is called.. In our local language, Kannada we call it othikyatha..

Return of the southern hawker

Gomphe de Graslin

Gave de Pau

Very camera shy and may be it was the speedlight therefore I made only 5 shots. I like this one best from this series.

Please identify this insects