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Lacewing portrait. I have found several adult Lacewings in the house recently. I have managed to catch a few and put them outside, but it has now turned very cold. Instead, I grabbed the macro lens and got a few shots as this one sat on a wall at the top of the stairs. A short while later the cat was sat right by where the Lacewing had been. I can only hope it flew off, but I have a sneaking suspicion it might have become a cat snack.
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
~Rabindranath Tagore
First shot from this years summer/holiday album.
While in France I noticed these creepy fairly large spiders making haunting webs around the windows in an old barn. This one was tucking into one of his friends!!
I have been informed it only takes a day or two to make a web like this.
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Lynx spiders are hunters specialized for living on plants. This species does not use a web to capture its prey. It pounces on its prey in a cat-like manner, which is the reason for the name lynx. It is active during the day.
The body of the female may be as much as 22 millimeters (0.87 in) long. The male is smaller, being more slender and averaging 12 millimeters (0.47 in) in length.
The green lynx spider very seldom bites humans, and when it does, its venomous bite, though painful, is not deadly.
The species is primarily of interest for its usefulness in agricultural pest management, for example in cotton fields.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peucetia_viridans
Columbia, South Carolina, USA
A celebration of the colour green.
These shield bugs feed on solanaceous plants especially the genus Solanum, which includes potatoes, tomatoes and wild tobacco.
12 mm length
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Small longhorn beetle with tufts of hair on the antenna (Cerambycidae). Dried specimen from Indonesia (West Sumatra, Mt. Sanggul, 1200-1500m alt., ca. 35 km N of Payakumbuh, IX.2012).
Studio work, focus stack of 128 images; assembled in Zerene Stacker (Dmap & Pmax).
Sony A7RM5 (apsc mode) + Laowa 65mm f/2.8 2x ultra macro apo; ISO-200, f/2.8, 1/320s, -0.7 step, natural diffused light.