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Finally managed to bait some wasps in the garden using a small piece of raw fish. The wasps would carefully cut a chunk off before flying back with it to their nest
10-spot ladybird pretending to be a kidney spot ladybird - the patches of white give it away, but I only realised when I was processing the pics
Approx 100 mm from tail (bottom) to extended fore-legs (top of picture). A truely amazing insect! (From the Chatham Islands).
Not a great capture, its not very sharp but ive posted it because i would like an ID on it if anyone can help
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Endopterygota
Order: Diptera
Suborder: Nematocera
Infraorder: Culicomorpha
Superfamily: Culicoidea
Family: Culicidae
Chrysochus auratus. Chrysomelidae. Female, male, and male in amplexus. Denison University Biological Reserve, Granville, Licking County, OH.
Those are aphids on a lily plant. I thought they looked cool, but I had to be careful of the red ants that guarded them (small but vicious). I thoght this particular shot looked interesting.