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There are times I am SO glad I am not a flying insect! Wished I could have released him but I would have harmed him more if I had tried.
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.
Few more of these appearing in the garden - think this is fairly recently hatched judging by the pale eye colour.
One of many Chaetostricha doricha parasitoid wasps of the Trichogrammatidae on the wing at the moment. This beautiful female was found in birch in the garden. Additional pictures below show wing and antenna detail.
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
Taken using a recently acquired Olympus OM1 35mm SLR camera.
Agfa Vista ISO400 film, processed in the Tetenal C41 kit.