Two-tailed Swallowtail Butterfly - Our State Butterfly! I photographed this beauty tapping minerals out of the soil at Sabino Canyon. It was huge! And it was one of the most cooperative butterflies I have photographed. ©R.C. Clark: Dancing Snake Nature Photography

After swarming

Common darter dragonfly in the garden. Focus stacked using zerene

C. auratus. My girlfriend saw this large beetle running across the ground. Took a while before we convinced it to pose for a photo :)

Furry soldier beetle on grass blade

This wasp was found resting on pine leaves (seedlings of Araucaria angustifolia) just at the sunset.

il ne reste plus beaucoup d'insecte, en cet automne pluvieux...seuls quelques syrphes viennent encore butiner les quelques pâquerettes survivante!

San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua

About 50mm head+body length, found on a Casuarina.

This is what I have learned today.

20mm extension tube

Euploea Eunice, common name Blue Banded King Crow

This thing was big! I was lucky to have captured it so vibrantly

Location: Upper Peirce

Small Tortoiseshells on Michaelmas Daisy. 1

bee eating mango.

European Cabbage Butterfly on Prickly Lettuce flower.

Pieris rapae on Lactuca scariola. Cold mornings make the insects approachable.

10-spot ladybird on camelia bud. Focus stacked using zerene

Plant bug feeding on oxe-eye daisy. Focus stacked using zerene

I found this under a rose leaf - not sure what this bug is doing or what it is - it is just neat looking. (Newport News, Virginia)

Identified by Speech Path Girl: Golden Tortoise Beetle, Charidotella sexpunctata

Link: whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/homehort/pest/GTB.htm

Thanks Speech Path Girl

a moth of the Crambidae family

20 September 2015

London Wetland Centre

More miner bees

The smallest thing I've managed to get in focus (just) so far. Still working on clarity.

Canon EOS Rebel T3 with Reversed Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 @ 55mm

1/80 sec, f/11, ISO-800

no flash

Family: Noctuidae

Taken at mercury vapour light in Thurlby, Lincolnshire, UK.

Mexican Cactus Fly