This little lady took a liking to my denims!

Harlequin ladybird. Focus stacked using zerene

Honey bee feeding on sugar/honey syrup on a camellia leaf

From moth trap, my garden, North Lincolnshire

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

Sympetrum fonscolombii- Hembra

Jeu de patience

10-spot ladybird. Focus stacked using zerene

Green shieldbug nymph

Designer 10-spot ladybird. Focus stacked using zerene

Nikon D3, lens 200 F4 macro.

Speckled bush cricket nymph at the pollen again in a potentilla flower. Focus stacked using zerene

Insect

Chalcid wasp on the car. About 2.05 mm body length

A beautiful insect photographed in the garden of Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna, Austria.

Best viewed in large size to get all the details of this critter...

White Springs Dike

This small carder bee was a beauty.

Deeside.

couple of hours with the macro

© David K. Edwards.

There are far too many flies this year, but at least it gives me lots of subjects to practise on!

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

Henry David Thoreau

textures thanks to PaintedWorksByKB

Latin name: Villa lateralis

About 3/8 inch long.

MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA

A rather small cold male red mason bee. Turned out to be carrying some mites. Focus stacked using zerene.

See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/26582267476/ for a 3D version

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

Cimice delle piante. (Graphosoma italicum or Graphosoma lineatum).

Picture wing fly deciding it doesn't mind my finger being there as it's nice and warm

dance fly on a sunchair. Focus stacked using zerene