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Order: Diptera (True Flies).
Size: 10-14mm.
Range: Southern Canada and throughout the United States.
Description: Adults are active during the spring and summer in open habitats, usually around carcasses or animal waste in bright sunlight. Adults feed on animal fluids. Larvae eat the rotting flesh of dead vertebrates and invertebrates; thousands of maggots can be found on a single carcass. Larve complete their development in a few days and pupate in the soil.
common hogweed (?) again, with the same bugs - they seem to both help the pollination of the plant and to use it for their own reproduction.
Neptis saclava (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) captured from Khokwe forest Moatize district Tete Province Mozambique.
Ruta hacia el Paramo del señor Miguel, justo antes de comenzar la ruta de ascenso al altiplano. Edo. Trujillo, Venezuela.
Arthropod (insect?) that was crawling on my wall... Thing was caught and put in a professional studio - my window sill...
Shot with nikon micro 55mm and a couple of extension rings. I guess f/4-ish and 1/250-1/500. Off-camera flash from the left, SB600 at 1/32 (I think). Triggered using poverty wizards.
Anyone know what this is?
Mark Oliver's assemblage works use antiquated books and various objects to create intricate and intriguing insect specimen cases. Reclaiming Art and Craft exhibition at Harley Gallery, Welbeck, North Nottinghamshire.
Artist Regina Silveira's patterns of oversized insects swarm across the floors and walls of this room at the Goldie Paley Gallery in Brazil.
From a fun children's book. The pictures combined two different animals to make a new imaginary one.
Personal exploration into fine line drawing.
I have always loved drawing and feel insects and certain sea creatures have very interesting forms and leave lots of potential for intense cross hatch drawings...
A variety of insects found on vegetation along the White Oak Creek greenway, Chatham County, NC (USA) on 4 August 2021.
Little Blue Dragonlet - Erythrodiplax minuscula (female, ~25 mm length)
References
-Beaton, Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast (Univ. Georgia Press, 2007), pp. 274-5
-BugGuide: bugguide.net/node/view/590
-Dunkle, Dragonflies Through Binoculars: A Field Guide to Dragonflies of North America (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000) p. 204, plate 37
This tiny insect I have presumed to be a leafhopper but cannot discover its name despite it's colourful apprearance.
Can anyone help please?
Wolves Wood is in UK in County of Suffolk in East Anglia.
A gorgeous weevil found in boggy heathy wood. There was a very similar one that was iridescent purple; it landed on my arm, but refused to stay for a portrait!
Known as Birch Leaf Roller.
A backyard visitor. Bird activity must be down when you find yourself photographing insects. Still, lots of fun.