Darter dragonfly in the garden. Natural light.

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...

This small carder bee was a beauty.

Le Silène (Brintesia circe), grand papillon dont la taille avoisine les 7 cm ne passe pas inaperçu en vol qu'il a puissant et décidé. Au sol c'est une autre histoire car il a l'art du camouflage en se posant sur des supports, roches, pierres ou troncs souvent recouverts de lichens qui lui permettent de se fondre totalement dans le décor. Il n'offre très souvent que son verso et a la particularité de pondre en vol.

Deeside.

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

7-spot ladybird. Strong natural light. First one I've seen this year

"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

Seen in the garden. These are a bit of a macro cliche, but they do pose politely for me!

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

Crab spider with a rather large meal of fly.

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

Took the dog up my local hill again this morning... managed to get a couple of shots off before he took flight. It would have been nice to get the classic silhouette shot, but not to be.!!

Saw this land on my mother car window screen so thought I'd try to get a quick shot before I scared it away

A small cold hoverfly, spotted this hoverfly on my Euphorbia blossoms looking a bit miserable. Persuaded it to walk on to my finger to warm up a bit

Are you being Served

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Interesting looking fly on ox-eye daisy. Think it's Miltogramma sp.

Focus stacked using zerene

That honey bee again. Feeding on sugar/honey syrup. Natural light

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

California Dancer

D700 | 105mm AIS | Tamron 90mm

The gas mask fly has no gas mask!

HFDF.

Insect Bites on wall mosquito

Methona themisto

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Marmalade hoverfly on ox-eye daisy. Natural light.