Part of an Anthropologie set I stalked for a year before it finally went on sale.

My backyard

Can you tell the difference between a damselfly and a dragonfly?

Butterfly feeding on purple plant

spotted this half cm. insect on a leaf. anybody know what it is?

Canon 50d, sigma 105 2.8

1/80, f3.5 ISO 200

www.gpnc.org/honeybee.htm

Olympus pen e-pl3 + Vivitar 55mm. F2.8 macro

on a warm orange calendula which I grew from seed

Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee NWR, Boyton Beach Fl

This the second of two pics - the first is the exoskeleton that it emerged from.

Thanks for looking!

Small cuckoo bee Sphecodes sp. on marguerite flower

Shiawassee NWR, Saginaw, MI

I believe this to be an Eight Spotted Forester, but if anyone knows differently, feel free to let me know.

Large just like its name. This mosquito does not bite. This insect shows luminescence when photographed.

Seymour, CT

Stick insect from Iwokrama, Guyana.

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

The Rudbeckia 'Prairie Sun' is a popular flower this time of year, when many of the other open-faced daisies are more or less over.

The wasps are getting a little sluggish by this time of year and so it's easier to get pics. Although I have to say this year i have hardly seen any.

For those of you with a fear of stripes...you are unlikely to get stung if you keep absolutely calm and don't wave your arms about!

ZOOM to see his furry waistcoat.

An aged Syrphus sp. hoverfly. Focus stacked using zerene

"...Les chrysopes permettent de réduire l'utilisation d'insecticides contre les pucerons et autres petits arthropodes nuisibles, ce qui a ainsi un impact favorable sur la protection de l'environnement." Wikipedia

"... the larvae are active predators and feed on aphids and other small insects. It has been used in the biological control of insect pests on crops." Wikipedia

Tokina 100mm f/2.8

spicebush swallowtail butterfly larva

Photo: Ryan Hagerty, USFWS

Found this hairy fly near Terrigal, NSW, Australia. Very much alive and buzzing!

A little double upload of this little insect. I remember looking down at a grass seed stalk in sunlight and seeing something red. Thinking a cool red "hair" growing out of grass seed would make a cool photo, down I went and only discovered the red "hair" was antennae coming off this incredibly small insect which I could only see through my macro lens. I have no clue on an ID.

The first is a close up of the guy, the latter set against a bokeh-bow (hehe).

A nest of baby spiders, suspended on a fine web, above stinging nettles.

Thought this was a wasp when I spotted it on the car but think it's a male flying red ant Myrmica sp.

Quite late in the year but in great condition