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This colorful little cartoon-looking critter is a planthopper nymph, about 1 cm. long, from Costa Rica. I do not know the function of the marvelous snoot. (Per iNat, family Dictyopharidae, possibly Lappida sp.)
Just one little reason to love spring and summer. I plant coneflowers at my house for the bees and the butterflies.
Female Damselfly
It turns out that some females (of the species) have blue forms and some brown, making this one extremely challenging to identify.
On my PC anyway, this photo handles enlargement well. Click the photo, once, twice.
MORE macro, more bees, more alliums……..
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This is an Indo-China Double Shield
Mantis, shown trying to remove and eat seeds from a poppy seed head.
A pair of plant hoppers mating.
There are 10 species but they are based on wing color, not genitalia. This is problematic. [Bug Guide]
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One of the Harlequins... their appearance can vary. Another species that doesn't really belong here and arrived some 25 years ago.
A male bumblebee - male bees have longer antennae, with an extra segment, no pollen "basket" on their rear legs, and often larger eyes than females. It may look like he's drinking from the flower, but if you zoom in you'll see he's actually using the claws on his front leg to groom the end of the tongue (glossa), which has tiny hairs for soaking up nectar.