I found this incredible insect at the yard of a chocolate factory in Tarapoto.

Insects With Tits.

Cheap Fest APR 27th 2007. Blue Plate. Norfolk, VA. Photo by Gary

Insect

Size approx 16mm.

Hover fly (Episyrphus balteatus) scientific classification.

Superdomain: Neomura

Domain: Eukaryota

(unranked): Opisthokonta

(unranked) Holozoa

(unranked) Filozoa

Kingdom: Animalia

Subkingdom: Eumetazoa

Clade: Bilateria

Clade: Nephrozoa

(unranked): Protostomia

Superphylum: Ecdysozoa

(unranked): Panarthropoda

(unranked): Tactopoda

Phylum: Arthropoda

Clade: Pancrustacea

Subphylum: Hexapoda

Class: Insecta

Subclass: Pterygota

Infraclass: Neoptera

Superorder: Endopterygota

Order: Diptera

Suborder: Brachycera

Infraorder: Muscomorpha

Section: Aschiza

Superfamily: Syrphoidea

Family: Syrphidae

Subfamily: Syrphinae

Tribe: Syrphini

Genus: Episyrphus

Species: E. balteatus

Thistle (Cirsium sp) scientific classification.

Superdomain: Neomura

Domain: Eukaryota

(unranked): Diaphoretickes

(unranked): Archaeplastida

Kingdom: Plantae

Clade: Streptophyta

Clade: Embryophytes

Clade: Polysporangiophytes

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta

Superdivision: Spermatophyta

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: Asteridae

Order: Asterales

Family: Asteraceae

Subfamily: Carduoideae

Tribe: Cardueae

Subtribe: Carduinae

Genus: Cirsium

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

libellules de la Prade de Thuir

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Testing macro with Panasonic Leica 12-60 2.8-4.0

Another variant of Coccophagus obscurus parasitoid wasp of the Aphelinidae family found in the garden. This one has very yellow markings on the frons and around the orbit, plus more defined stripes on the tergites. Additional pictures below.

The camouflage of grasshoppers is impressive!

green grasshopper insect

Small wasp-like insect on birch at night. No idea of ID.

summer edition

in Monakam, northern black forest.

It;s the rainy season... time for all little maggots to grow up and dance around the light at night.

A few more photos from my friend Paul Allen, Naples, FL

Little School of Horrors June-July 2015: Insect Mask used on World Record for Models on Catwalk

Not sure what type of fly this is.

Jumping plant louse (Psyllid) on a milkbottle top taken at 5:1 FF. 2.3mm body length

I was really fortunate to catch sight of this tiny wisp of a wasp floating silently by. At first I thought it was a really small damselfly because, in flight, there's a surprising resemblance. Anyway, it's amazingly small, like a sewing needle with wings. For scale, the yellow part of the flower is about a half inch (12mm) in diameter. It's called a carrot wasp.

Took a snap of a bee that was hanging around the garden

This picture was taken in Sinharaja Forest Reserve - Sri Lanka

A cooperating harmless [house] centipede found sheltering in my garage. It was unharmed by this photoshoot and returned into the garage where it will carry on with its beneficial insect control mission.

Plant bug on old camellia flower. Focus stacked using zerene

Scientists have found a new species of prehistoric insect, Cascoplecia insolitism preserved in amber, a tiny "unicorn" fly with an unusual set of eyes.

The fly, found in a 100-million-year-old chunk of amber from a mine in Myanmar, has a small horn on the top of its head with three simple eyes on top, in addition to two larger compound eyes.

www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/28/tech-insect-unicor...

Photo: George Poinar

Cereal Leaf Beetle - D90 + Tamron 90mm macro f:2.8 + SB900 strobe

Dubudja boardwalk, Cape Tribulation

Dallas Fanning NP

insect

Episode 8, Part 1 of 2.

A parasitised Scale collected on 6th April from a bay tree growing in Hastings Cemetery. In the picture below you can see an exit hole from which a male Metaphycus dispar parasitoid wasp eclosed on 13th April.

See next post.

Waterford, Michigan

A housefly on hellebore