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These creatures are much smaller than grasshoppers, but just as characterful. They will closely watch what you are doing with the lens and keep moving around the opposite side of a plant stem from you. Curious but wary. This one only stayed in a side on pose very briefly.
I was walking, when i saw the clouded border flying again, which i did not know the name of at that time. It was hard to photograph, because it was so active and got scared fast. But then it landed, i took my shots and got this result!
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Species: Clouded border, gerande spanner 🇳🇱, randmåler 🇳🇴 (lomaspilis marginata)
While I sat on a rock by the river photographing Whooper Swans it was impossible not to notice many Water Striders scurrying from one spot to another. These little insects literally walk on water! Their legs have tiny hairs that repel water and capture air. By repelling water, the water striders are able to stand on the water’s surface and the captured airs allows them to float and move easily.
(Per National Wildlife Federation: Water molecules are attracted to each other and like to stay together, especially on the surface where there is only air above. The attraction between water molecules creates tension and a very delicate membrane. Water striders walk on this membrane.)
It was sunny for a few hours today so I went looking for anything that might have become active and found a Green Stink Bug. I have seen this critter in my yard before, but this is the first time it has let me get close enough for a few frames.
Nezara Virudula
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F13, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to about 1.5x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT, E-TTL metering, -2/3 FEC. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen AI, and Clarity in that order.
Heute habe ich mich mal auf Schmetterlinge konzentriert und es wurde belohnt 😊
Ganz schön flink gewesen der kleine Kerl 😃
I took pity on this Eastern Yellowjacket as he moved slowly in the cool of the autumn air. So I gave him a drop of hot honey to help warm him up.
Les ailes ne sont pas faites pour durer ouvertes et offrent quelques secondes au soleil, puis reprennent le secret de leurs couleurs.
Nous appelons cela un papillon mais la nature appelle simplement cela un instant.
EN Wings are not meant to remain open forever and they offer themselves to the sun for a few seconds, then quietly reclaim the secret of their colors.
We call it a butterfly but Nature simply calls it a moment.
“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.”
~John Hope Franklin
A pair of ambush bugs (Phymata sp.) sharing a romantic meal. The unlucky fly may be Pollenia sp. (Montana)
Pristhesancus plagipennis is a large, native assassin bug within Order Hemiptera - the true bugs that have piercing and sucking mouthparts.
True to its common name, this ambush predator stabs the insect prey, injecting saliva that contains enzymes which dissolves the bodily tissues. The assassin bug then sucks out the liquefied tissue through its modified mouthpart beak/proboscis.
25 mm body length.
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