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It was sitting on my Rhubarb plant, sunbathing and catching insects to eat, it has just finished one in the pic
Green lacewing zoom series . I normally only see these in spider webs, so I cheated when i saw this one and trapped it in a glass and gave it a spot of honey to eat whilst i photographed it. Of course i did release it after. They do have beautiful eyes.
I've seen only two damselflies this year (both of which zipped off at 100mph before I even got near them), until yesterday when I visited the RSPB reserve in Lochwinnoch, where there were many. However, the ones yesterday were also speedy damselflies, and I didn't get close to many. This poor one was flying around, but it seemed to have a problem with its abdomen (it was bent at a funny angle), which is probably why I managed to get a couple of photos---I didn't bother it for long though, as I was sure it would rather have flown off, but maybe wasn't feeling great.
I have not made a lot of these insect macros. I had the macro lens on for another purpose and at that moment decided to photograph this common fly.
I thought it was not bad so decided to put this on Flickr.
This Tortoiseshell managed to find a space to feed between the Soldier beetles, only to get bounced off by an aggressive wasp...
Miner bee on my finger. Think it's a male Andrena sp. Focus stacked using zerene stacker.. Having spotted my finger, it walked on and had a warm up