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A monarch pauses on a flower just long enough to catch the light. Captured in the glow of a late summer afternoon, this moment still feels golden.
Les Coccinellidae, en français coccinellidés, sont une famille d'insectes de l'ordre des coléoptères, appelés aussi coccinelles, ou encore familièrement ou régionalement bêtes à bon Dieu ou pernettes. Ce taxon monophylétique regroupe environ 6 000 espèces réparties dans le monde entier.
Chorthippus brunneus climbing a gorse stem. Charming creaytures really, they seem to watch you cautiously, often moving around a stem so they can peep at you without being seen so much. This one posed just briefly.
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Diesen schönen Falter habe ich im Schmetterlingshaus im Krefelder Zoo knipsen können. WoW da gibt es so viele schöne Falter :)
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There's really not much to say ... I don't know what kind of insects they are, but in my mind's eye, they are a little creepy looking.
Info Update: Linda Martin tipped me off that these aliens might be Ambush Bugs. She is correct, they are Ambush Bugs! They are in a subfamily of Assassinbugs called Phymatinae.
Here is some info from Bugwood Wiki:
"Life History and Habits: Ambush bugs are predators of other insects and occasionally spiders. They lie in wait on plants and hunt by ambush, capturing prey that comes within range and injecting paralyzing saliva through their piercing-sucking mouthparts. Ambush bugs may be forage among leaves but most commonly wait among flowers for passing flies, bees and wasps that visit (Figure 3). Ambush bugs can be most easily found by examining yellow flowers (e.g., goldenrod, rabbitbrush) and white flowers that bloom in mid to late summer."
The image is from my Summer 2019 Archives
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Und noch ein schönes Exemplar in meiner Sammlung der Libellen , eine wundervolle Blaue Federlibelle (Platycnemis pennipes) Weibchen😊
'Chafer the Gaffer'
I'm the garden chafer the metallic green gaffer ....
I'll buzz and spray .... so keep out my way ....
I'll trample your pansies spoiling all your fancies ....
I'm big, I'm green so seldom seen ....
"The Gaffer" .... know what I mean?
Fun poetry by:
Sean Walsh.
Gaffer = Boss
These metallic green beetles recently are a frequent visitor to my garden here in Bristol.
You probably have seen them buzzing around the flowers in the summertime, they are considered a pest insect, and can reduce flowers to just stalks in no time at all.
I had a run in with them where they trampled my pansies, but I just let them carry on.
If you try to pick them off your flowers be aware these chaps can shoot out a acidic jet from the rear abdomen, if it goes into your eyes it may cause irritation or worse.
These rose chafer beetles are built like flying green tanks, nature ensured they were robust for sure.
I believe that the larvae a cream coloured maggot can be underground for sometimes up to seven years before eventually emerging as a adult beetle.
Marvellous nature 😁
One of the Harlequins... their appearance can vary. Another species that doesn't really belong here and arrived some 25 years ago.
Hippodamia variegata, commonly known as the spotted amber ladybird, variegated lady beetle and Adonis ladybird is a Eurasian ladybird species that was accidentally introduced to Australia around the year 2000.
I read that the number of spots is variable, from one to thirteen I believe.
Around 5 mm in length.
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I think it was a shock to us both to cross paths in this way - I was busy watching and photographing an assassin bug on the hunt and out of the bush, right next to me and in front of my eyes popped this lovely mantis.
I believe it is Pseudomantis albofimbriata, commonly known as the false garden mantis.
Around 70 mm length.
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A beautiful beetle from July in Arizona, Pasimachus sp., I'd guess P. viridans. It's a ground beetle, family Carabidae; those in this genus are sometimes called "warrior beetles," I assume in honor of the impressive bitey bits. They're fast-running predators of other less-fast bugs.
Still Dragonflies around late September. This one was photographed at the edge of a pool in the Manx Birdlife Reserve, northern tip of the Isle Of Man.
I was trying to get some head shots at five times life size of this lethargic Sawfly when it woke up and started feeding. The framing was just too tight at 5x to get the critters mouth parts, so I took a risk and backed the camera out, dialed the MP-E 65mm down to 4x, and brought the camera back in to get a shot. I got lucky and didn't spook critter into taking off. The tricky part is tracking a moving subject when the frame at 4x is only 5.7mm wide by 3.7mm high.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 4x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, +1/3 FEC, second curtain sync). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
I found this dynamic little caterpillar making a meal of a native snake vine, Hibbertia scandens.
Phalaenoides glycinae is a native moth, inhabiting the south-east of our country. It is a day flying moth and with its colour combination of black, cream and bright orange, can often be mistaken for a butterfly.
Adult moths feed on nectar and live for only two to three weeks. Larvae as seen here, feed on plants within family Vitaceae, Dilleniaceae and Onagraceae.
50 mm length.
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Hier habe ich gestern auch diese Kleine Pechlibelle (junges Weibchen) knipsen dürfen.
Schon erstaunlich wieviel Arten es gibt :)