Braconid wasp. Although I didn't catch it, this seemed to be displaying by raising it's wings in the air

(Syrphidae) Hoverfly

Muscid fly

butterfly. a bit boring though.

Not sure what this Lasius niger ant queen was doing but she seemed to have missed the ball. The other ants in the area flew about 3 weeks ago. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

Flower: Anemone hortensis ssp heldreichii

Insect: no idea!

Conservatory of Flowers

San Francisco, CA

Megachile sp.?

A beautiful chalcid wasp. About 2.3mm body length

Noticed a few black ants beginning to show some activity so I baited the top of a milk bottle with a drop of honey

Grasshopper sitting on a railing.

warming up in the morning sun

insectes de la Prade de Thuir

Hatfield Forest, Essex

Hoverfly

Epistrophe elegans

Thorpe Bay, Essex

Sony Alpha500, Minolta 100 mm macro

Location: Subang - Indonesia

Capsid plantbug on lace hydrangea

Araignée / Spider

Insect

Op de waslijn

Natural light. Thought it was supposed to be a partridge ?

Dragonfly on new shoot of plant

Few more of these appearing in the garden - think this is fairly recently hatched judging by the pale eye colour.

on Nature-Sam's finger - Cliff and Fleurs Outside light great for attracting moths

Chinche

Large hoverfly, Volucella zonaria female

he stands on my window, and after shotting, my closeup filter fail at an altitude of more than 10m

Beetle

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.

explore #377

Little and large bumble bees on the feeder

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