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Taken on a NOPS indoor bug shoot. Was very lucky to get away with the extremely slow shutter speed because the insect was quite active most of the time. E-M1/60mm.
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Looking through my back catalogue of older images I spotted this nice tiny Hoverfly looking so pretty on a strawberry flower.
This image was taken in Sptember of 2016.
I do love insects, and I do plant insect friendly flowers in the garden to help them along!
Seen on the forest road, near the garden :)
European oil beetle (Meloe proscarabaeus), from the family Meloidae. It occurs in Europe, North Africa and Palearctic Asia. It is 11 to 35 mm long, with males being smaller than females. It lives in meadows, field margins and other warm sites in all but the far north of the continent. Adult insects are found from April to June. They are phytophagous and feed on juicy, green parts of plants. The main defensive strategy of larvae and adult insects is the production of a secretion containing cantharidin - a highly toxic monoterpene for many invertebrate and vertebrate insectivores.
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Owad spotkany na leśnej drodze :)
Oleica krówka (Meloe proscarabaeus) – gatunek chrząszcza z rodziny oleicowatych. Występuje w Europie, Afryce Północnej i palearktycznej Azji. Ma długość od 11 do 35 mm, przy czym samce są mniejsze od samic. Owad ten zasiedla stanowiska suche, ciepłe i otwarte, w tym suche łąki, ugory, trawiaste zbocza, miedze, pobrzeża lasów i przydroża. Owady dorosłe spotyka się od kwietnia do czerwca. Są fitofagami i żerują na soczystych, zielonych częściach roślin. Główną strategią obronną larw i owadów dorosłych jest wytwarzanie wydzieliny zwierającej kantarydynę – silnie trujący dla wielu bezkręgowych i kręgowych zwierząt owadożernych monoterpen.
Lift up your candle dress
Unweave your nylon spine
In velvet and in onions
You will soon be mine
I am your humble servant
Madam as you see
Tonight I am determined
You will lie along with me
You are an insect mother
With a black shiny head
That parts your cloak to open
Human you upon the bed
You are an insect mother
I your jammy son
And now we've found each other
There is nowhere else to run
Lift up your candle dress
Unweave your nylon spine
In velvet and in onions
You will soon be mine
I was rather delighted to find this guy on the deck - it was the first I've ever seen one around the house, and I've long wanted to get a mantis portrait.
Plains bee assassin, specifically, Apiomerus crassipes. They "stalk flowering plants that are visited by bees, flies, and other pollinating insects." This one seen lurking on a flower in the Lady Bird Johnson Wldflower Center...
Yes, so we try to return to our relationship again... me, my garden and its inhabitants. I had an unfortunate fall about a month ago and hurt my shoulder badly. Now the damage from that accident has recovered to the extent that I can comfortably hold my camera.
A stekel of some kind (?) is the first individual to my humble delight to model like this after the new reckoning of time...