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This little guy has been hanging around the garden lately.

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).

Beard is about 1mm in width.

silène _ Kanetisa circe

 

Not a great capture, its not very sharp but ive posted it because i would like an ID on it if anyone can help

Please identify this insects

 

Class: Insecta

Subclass: Pterygota

Infraclass: Neoptera

Superorder: Endopterygota

Order: Diptera

Suborder: Nematocera

Infraorder: Culicomorpha

Superfamily: Culicoidea

Family: Culicidae

...not sure, are these in the Fly Family? >>>Yes! March Fly is the common name.

My friend the garden spider and his shadow on the garden gate.

Chrysochus auratus. Chrysomelidae. Female, male, and male in amplexus. Denison University Biological Reserve, Granville, Licking County, OH.

Caught in the DoF!

Gatekeeper in my garden Shrewsbury Shropshire 26th July 2013

The very tip of the tongue of this bumblebee seems to have three little tines.

beetle, not exactly sure what kind

I noticed this hitchhiker on my car while I was at the Mills Mansion in Staatsburg, NY.

Gele Tijger (Spilosoma lutea)

Carpocoris sp. - Pentatomidae

Larve

Macro of Assassin Bug.

The Common Leopard Phalanta phalantha is a sun-loving butterfly of the Nymphalid

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.

Comme Madame vient de se taper un bellargus, on aperçoit de loin en loin les écailles bleues de sa victime...

Crane fly, mosquito hawk, mosquito eater and other given misnomers. They don't eat mosquitoes, or anything else as the adult stage is for breeding only. The larvae get roots and can be pests. With more than 4200 species I have no idea which this is.

This guy was tough to shoot on the floor.

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