Not the introduced one I'm guessing.

Hoverfly Myathropa florea

Small male miner bee on a sunchair. Focus stacked using zerene

Xylocopa micans, with pyramid bush flowers, Melochia tomentosa, at the Wildflower Center in Austin.

Azure damselfly- Strong natural light with CP filter

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Nomada bee. First of the year. Focus stacked using zerene

4 spotted chaser, I think!

Had me chasing it around Rixton Clay Pits for 4 hours or more at the weekend.

Fly. Trapped on the kitchen window. Focus stacked using zerene

Off I went to the Camera shop again. I have a new toy. It is a macro tube. You pay a silly amount of money for a hollow tube and then you add that to the lens and the yoghurt carton and voila we can see the bee’s tongue lapping at the pond water through a hole in the lily pad. I am having so much fun with these insects. My friend Val loaned me a special ring flash that you add to the end of your lens so that it all becomes even better. BUT you guessed it I prefer the yoghurt carton for diffusing the light. The wireless flash was just too flashy. Tomorrow I am seriously going to turn over EVERY rock in the garden.

Nomada bee. Focus stacked using zerene. Has paler eyes than the last one I found

Aphids on the fuchsia flower. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on camelia leaf. Probably Meliscaeva auricolis

Miner bee clinging to a grass blade

A plume moth found in the kitchen

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Evolution must be exciting.

Remains

Speckled wood butterfly on rhododendron. Natural light

For frida

unidentified insect

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Saw at a park of Hong Kong

Red mason bee on echium. Natural light

Hoverfly on potentilla Dasysyrphus albostriatus. Natural light

Largest hoverfly in the UK. Hornet mimicking

There are dozens of these over a small plant.

One of those orange and black things.

Ichneumon wasp. Slightly strange posture with the upturned abdomen

Grass moth. Focus stacked using zerene

An old honey bee on my finger. Natural light.

A rather dark aged honey bee that was looking very tired. I let it warm up on my finger for a while before it did eventually fly off