Essa foto fiz no Passeio Público quando saí pra fotografar com a fantástica fotógrafa Raquel Santana. A bichinha ficou paradinha e deu pra fazer fotos bem próximas, essa foi a que eu consegui chegar mais perto.

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Another brightish day with light cloud - great for natural light shots

BlackWater River Escambia County Florida. These insects were everywhere at the River Bridge boat ramp near Pace.

They are from 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.

~11 mm

18 May 2006

Taken with a Canon EF 70-300 USM zoom with extension tubes and flash. This has the advantage of giving a good amount of standoff from the subject which is less likely to be spooked. Lighting with flash allows a small aperture to be used.

A beautiful insect sitting on a leaf.

A black swallowtail hard at work on a Sunday afternoon.

Gatekeeper butterfly

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Libellula pulchella

I like his Daft Punk head.

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On Jenna's arm, the 11 year old, enjoyed hiking, horses, swimming in 48 degree water and insects. Taken near Sisters, Oregon at 4500ft.

Was rather suprised to find a holly blue butterfly out and about yesterday (17th Nov)

Dressed for the occasion, this fly seems to be poised for the spotlight.

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thialand

Spotted this ladybird on a forest walk yesterday in the cold.

On the fence in my garden.

Symmetry is cool.

This ant has a fair set of chompers on him.

Crowle moor, Lincolnshire

Saw at a forest area of Taiwan

Ladybird on Sea Mayweed. Tripleurospermum maritimum

Mosquito sucking my blood.

Small plant bug on my arm - at least it did not prang me

A little better shot of him eating the wood.

Quite a few of these bees, they are very dark in colour and have this orange head but on closer inspection i think it could be pollen after all

Very green! It was rather a dull day, which slowed this sawfly down, but made it difficult to shoot the photo at a fast enough shutter speed to avoid blurring. I include the photo here, because this sawfly is such an extraordinary combination of lurid green and yellow/green colours.

Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae

The Monarch Butterfly larva.

This butterfly is probably the most photographed butterfly in the world.

Raleigh, NC USA

September 18, 2010

BC: Danaus plexippus (Lepidoptera : Nymphalidae). The Monarch butterfly is also sometimes called the Milkweed butterfly because its caterpillar feeds in Milkweed plants (Asclepias sp.). The caterpillar displays the yellow-orange-black pattern with some white as well, but is considered to fit into the defensive color pattern of milkweed insects. Some people call the insects that live on Milkweed and that are red, orange and black as part of the "Monarch Mimicry Complex".

I took this photo for Hump Wednesday! Insects found in the garden of the holiday apartment I was staying at in Brisbane.

Ctenium floridanum

Endangered in Florida

We saw this beautiful grass in full bloom now and then in the savannas in June. Our teeth were fine so we didn't test it out.

Apalachicola National Florest

Drone fly hoverfly enjoying some sugar/honey spray

Hoverfly on fir tree- Didea sp.

This hoverfly seems to like this thuja fir, only place in the garden i see it

Cricket on my bedspread

Un saltamontes parado por fuera de la ventana de la office

Taken on Conwy Mountain

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Taken in rural Oxfordshire with a Canon 1100D