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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
~Drew Barrymore
There were 3 caterpillars in our backyard a week ago. I don't know where they are now, I hope the birds didn't eat them. They were big, about 6-7 centimeters.
Not a typo. My choice.
My lovely daughter-in-law took these two separate photos with her cell phone in her garden recently. I thought they deserve to be shared here .
There was strong backlight (burnout) going on, so I chose the easy route of nudging the background to an "artsy" white.
Both photos required cropping to enlarge them. I was amazed at how well they accepted the enlargement with relatively minimal pixilation.
Opomyza germationis and petrei can't easily be identified from each other in the field. Anyway, this one wasn't too camera shy.
"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."
~ Sir James Matthew Barrie
With their beautifully warm and vibrant colours, these insects are commonly known as hibiscus harlequin bugs or cotton harlequin bugs as they feed on plants within family Malvaceae as well as cultivated cotton.
Adult females are mostly orange with shiny turquoise patches and males are shiny blue and red.
Female 20 mm length
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EXIF: Camera: Sony A7R IV
Lens: Sony 90mm f/2.8 Macro G OSS Exposure: 1/200 sec Aperture: f/8 ISO: 200
Lighting: On-Camera Flash (Manual Exposure)
Every scale on her wings catches the light — a mosaic of rust and cream and midnight, eyespots like tiny watching eyes. She leans in, proboscis uncurling toward the flower, patient and precise. 💜
A bumblebee captured in active flight, suspended against a softly painterly backdrop of warm garden florals. Shot using the Lensbaby Velvet 56, the image balances the tactile fuzzy texture and bright pollen baskets (corbiculae) of the bee with the signature velvety, dreamy bokeh that only vintage-style manual glass brings. A subtle sense of motion in the wings preserves the energy of the moment while keeping the fine details of nature front and centre.
Freshly emerged White-faced Darter (Leucorrhinia pectoralis) drying its wings after emerging from the exuvia. A rare and delicate transformation captured in natural light macro photography.
Die Hornissenkönigin startet gerade mit dem Bau ihres Palasts in unserer Gartenhütte - The Hornet Queen is working on her new hornet's nest in our garden sched ...
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Another shot of a thick legged hoverfly, closing in on a small daisy. The MP E 65 has no focusing and the working distances are very small... I got lucky here.