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Beneath the quiet hush of the forest floor, where the light barely filters through the canopy, a moment of life unfolds in secret. With wings like velvet painted in iridescent blue, the Archduke butterfly descends—not to bask in sunlight, but to feast on decay.
A forgotten fruit, shriveled and blackened, becomes a treasure trove of nutrients. The butterfly unrolls its slender proboscis and drinks deeply, drawing sustenance from what the forest leaves behind. There is elegance in this moment—where beauty meets the cycle of life and death, where even rot plays a vital role.
Here, in the silence, the Archduke reigns—not by grandeur or glory, but by the quiet persistence of life in the shadows.
Getting my macro photography back on. Samantha wandered into our rumpus room last night and scuttled under the lounge, prompting my wife to lift her legs off the floor faster than I've seen her move in years ;)
Samantha emerged later looking very pleased with her new "dust and debris" hairdo, I think it's going to be the go-to style for all the in-crowd stylish spiders this season. Or maybe I should think about cleaning under the lounge every now and then.
For the technically minded this photo is actual size and is a focus stack of 10 photos taken with my Olympus 60mm macro lens with a Raynox250 lens attached.
Cheers from Samantha & I :)
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Yet another image of the Painted Lady. I hope you like Painted Ladies because I took tons of images of them this summer/early fall. I can't seem to capture enough butterflies, the season is so short ...
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A lateral view is shared here to show the pretty flash of turquoise on the thorax. This took quite some doing as the dragon was very restless in nature.
A summer's day, enjoying the exceptional aerial prowess of the dragonfly.
Body length 50mm.
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To me, the most interesting parts of this dragonfly is the color green, and the wonderful eyes. The substrate was not that nice. All in all, I decided to go for an extreme crop and vignette, emphasizing the elements I like about it.
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Thistles are the best diners, especially if you are a bee!
The image is from this past summer with editing and a gentle slide via Topaz Studio.
Happy Sliders Sunday! HSS!
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Two-Lined Planthoppers (Acanalonia bivittata) are about 6 mm long (1/4”) with reddish stripes on the tops of their wings. They are found on black walnut, blueberry, cranberry and goldenrods, among other plants
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The autumn-blooming sedum flowers are just now beginning to burst forth in their glorious pink and red flowers.
Their pink glory is not just a delight to me, but also to the last generation of Monarch butterflies that are frantically feeding before they make their long migration to hibernation in Mexico.
This butterfly allowed me to get up close to capture this profile view as it fed on the nectar of the florets.
Riđoglavi Konjic
Na rubu travnjaka kod Šila pronašao sam Riđoglavi Konjic ili riđoglavu buš-skakavicu (Sepiana sepium), poznatu još i kao sepia buš-skakavica. Savršeno se uklapa u okoliš: boje joj variraju od sive do crvenkaste, s karakterističnim tamnim prslukom na leđima, obrubljenim svjetlom linijom i tamnim oznakama iznad očiju.
Odrasle jedinke pojavljuju se ljeti (srpanj-rujan), a mužjaci doprinose zvučnoj kulisi travnjaka svojim oštrim, "škripajućim" zvukom. I, zanimljivo — ova vrsta ima proporcionalno najveće testise u životinjskom svijetu.
Uhvatio sam ga u kadar zahvaljujući strpljenju i ovom ljetnom svjetlu — pravi trenutak makrofotografije.
Sepia bush-cricket
By the grassland edge near Šilo, I discovered a Sepiana sepium—commonly called the sepia bush-cricket. Its body blends gray-brown to reddish tones, marked by a distinctive dark, triangle-shaped pronotum edged with a light line, and a dark patch above the eye bisected by a pale streak.
Adults emerge in summer (July–September), and the males add a sharp, “scratching” chorus to the meadow’s soundtrack. Interestingly, this species holds the record for proportionally the largest testes in the animal world.
Capturing it took patience and that magical light of summer — a true moment of macro photography.
Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) (Diptera: calliphoridae)
La mosca verde botella común (Phaenicia sericata o Lucilia sericata) es una mosca de la familia Calliphoridae encontrada en la mayoría de las áreas del mundo y la más conocida de las numerosas especies de moscas verde botella. Es de 10-14 mm de largo, ligeramente más grande que una mosca doméstica, y tiene coloración brillante, metálica, azul-verde u oro con marcas negras. Tiene cerdas (setas) cortas y escasas de color negro en el tórax. Las alas son transparentes con venas marrón claro; las patas y antenas son negras. Las larvas se utilizan para la terapia de gusanos
The species is distinguished in that the female is bright green with a banded abdomen and the mature male has a blue abdomen with a green face and green and blue thorax.
The eastern pondhawk is native to parts of North America and Central America. The eastern pondhawk is an athletic, swift-flying predator, able to catch damselflies and other insect prey on the wing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythemis_simplicicollisColumbia, South Carolina. USA
The blackish meadow katydid making its way through the lime green foliage of 'Sheena's Gold' Duranta.
Specifically Conocephalus semivittatus ssp. semivittatus. Commonly known as coneheads for obvious reasons.
Small in size compared to other katydids I've come across, around 15 mm body length.
Adult male.
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Green orchid bees are varying shades of glossy metallic green and can grow to a length of about 1.3 cm (0.5 in). The membranous wings are dark-coloured and translucent and the female has pollen baskets on her hind legs. The male has an enlarged joint on his hind leg where there is a pit for storing substances he gathers from plants. The female but not the male possesses a sting which can be used on more than one occasion but which is not as painful to humans as a honeybee's sting.