Orancistrocerus drewseni

Macro

Hoverfly in the "studio". I temporarily kidnapped this hoverfly from outside and fed it some sugar/honey to keep it busy whilst I took some shots. Focus stacked using zerene. I did release it where I trapped it.

Environ 2 m/m de grandeur ...

A mirid bug nymph surveying it's surroundings

This creature's got some super nice long ones.

Parque Natural Sierra de Andújar

Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes.

Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush. Hold it too loose, it'll fly.

mayfly from santon

From moth trap in my garden, North Lincolnshire

About a half inch long, they are fairly common but keep low to the ground in flight. This one is feeding on Buckwheat.

MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA

This picture was taken in Sinharaja Forest Reserve - Sri Lanka

libellule

Mantis Ameles sobre una rama de hinojo silvestre.

Campo de Reus (Tarragona)

This strange looking insect is neither a scorpion or a fly and is completely harmless. It scavenges around in the undergrowth looking for dead insects to feed on. Seen in Dunwich, Suffolk.

insect harmony

I do not know insects any better than I do flowers.

Male darter dragonfly by the pond. Focus stacked using zerene. Oshiro 60mm

Insect was shot in Selangor, Malaysia

ID: Phyllium celebicum, male?

Ailanthus webworm moth (Atteva punctuella) is a common sight among the goldenrod flowers in the fall. Western Regional Park, Maryland

Speckled bush cricket nymph on berberis

stuck on some spider silk

Not sure what kind of bee this is, so I will just call it a Honeybee gathering pollen on the flower of a Pickerelweed in the wetlands of Florida.

Butterfly

Zygaena Fabricius -Zygaenidae

Cicadidae

Insectes

Lacewing on ox-eye daisy. Focus stacked using zerene

Quite happy with this one!!

These skeletal remains of an insect were found clinging to several blades of grass at the Jones/Hungryland Wildlife & Environmental Area in western Martin County, Florida.