Molting Hoverfly in flight

A darter dragonfly visited the garden yesterday. Gave me an opportunity to try my new 5Dmk2 / MPE-65 combo. Natural light /fill flash

Insect on sidewalk. Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in middle of Kansas.

15 Sept 2013

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Small male miner bee. It seems to have lost part of an antenna.

Miner bee sitting on a sun chair

making love

Une travailleuse toute position

This fly seems to consider throwing itself off the leaf, having to bear a mite larger than its head.

View large on black

mopsus mormon green spider eating grasshopper

no way out!

Its one of my close shoot when flying insect are mating.

Dung fly on camelia leaf feeding on sugar/honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

Flew right on my car window and it gave me enough time to take a picture i think... not as close as i want but this was taken with a 50mm 1.7

Large hoverfly Volucella inanis on marguerite

This cicada flew just from our Christmas tree

Insects

Little insect on a chrysanth.

Photo made with:

Nikon D300s

Tamron 90mm macro

Soligor extend tubes +68mm

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Bee on Onion flower

A new wasp for me. Cerceris sp. - feeding on ground elder

A suntanned greenbottle fly

This landed on my foot.

I think I need to invest in an insect guide. I am finding all kinds of little things to take pictures of with my macro lens but I can't identify most of them.

Dragon Fly resting after feasting on the thousands of gnats at the lake.

Some insects today, This was quite small, found on a wooden gate, thought it was a spider, until i saw it close up, it has 6 legs, can anyone ID this please, not a great image but hopefully good enough for someone to ID

Ladybugs on leaves.

Local: Santa Rita de Caldas/MG-Brasil

Hoverfly melanostoma scalare in welsh poppy. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly on crocus. Missed this shot taken a couple of weeks ago

Flower beetle on ox-eye daisy. Focus stacked using zerene. Don't think I've seen this one before