First shieldbug I've seen this year- a green shieldbug. Focus stacked using zerene

Had an unexpected visitor in the garden the other day - a red admiral butterfly. Natural light/fill flash

Small weevil

Added a 10mm extension tube to the 75mm lens and got this shot. Tried it with the 25mm as well, with similar subject size, but had to get much closer...

Papilio glaucus. This is the most perfect specimen I have ever photographed. It must have emerged the same day I saw it.

La Grange, MO. Lewis County

Bee fly roosting. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene.

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15-06-2009 Bagnasco (CN)

Schmetterlingshaus Vienna

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This is a picture of a bug, which is on a grass leaf.

Picture is edited with adobe photoshop.

dragon fly insect close up

Bee

Cocobolo Nature Reserve, Panama

Small picture wing fly displaying on a margeurite leaf tip. Taken at 3:1

I found in my garden today , a very handsome fellow indeed

Spotted from:- Chintamani Kar Bird Sanctuary, Kolkata

Weevil on blackberry stem. Focus stacked using zerene.

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Fairburn Ings

monarch butterfly

Lesser bulbfly hoverfly Eumerus sp. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/21207634424/ for a 3D version

First shieldbug of the year. A parent bug I think.

Miller County, Arkansas USA

Title:Nanahoshi 05 (Seven points 05)

Wow, I found this when I was out walking yesterday. I don't know what sort of critter makes a perfect little pot for a home, but there was something moving around in there. It's a classic, don't you think? Anyone know whose nest this might be?

A stick insect from Ecuador. I saw several of these during night hikes in habitats ranging from forest to gardens. Perhaps the colors serve as a warning that it has a unpleasant taste or is poisonous to consume, either way I didn't find out.

EDIT: Thanks to Bruno Kneubuehler, this has been IDed as a adult male Monticomorpha flavolimbata.

Fazenda Reserva Verdes Pastos, São Mamede, PB, Brazil

These and others seem to be attracted to a very small area of garden that we have allowed to grow wild.

Azure blue?