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Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else.

Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't.

You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.

A tension of opposites, is like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.

~Morrie Schwartz

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A swallowtail butterfly at Butterfly World, Coconut Creek, Florida. The wonders good image stabilization can produce....

These bugs with a pair of long antennae were gorging on lichens... They were packed tightly in a group that they looked like grains lump

Since spiders do not have great eyesight, they usually use the vibrations of the web strands to locate their prey

Western Tiger Swallowtail

Papilio rutulus

Colorado

Treehopper found in Merenberg, La Plata, Huila, Colombia. @merenberg.hotspot with @maria.daniela8

Photo by: Julio César González-Gómez

@gonzalezgomez40

I was photographing again when i saw this hoverfly. I thought why not photograph it, so i tried to. When it landed on the leaf, i immediately saw my oppertunity for this shot. I needed to be careful though, since it was easily scared away. And then i took my shot and got this!

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Species: Long hoverfly, groot langlijf 🇳🇱, stor kulehaleflue 🇳🇴 (sphaerophoria scripta)

Where i was, i saw a pellucid hoverfly again. This was around the 3rd time ever seeing it. My first time it was trapped in the house (and of course i helped him/her :)). I hoped to get a shot of it outside, so when i saw it i was excited. I took some shots and got this result!

Another good shot was from 'pellucid hoverfly enjoying some flowers' also posted on my photostream

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Species: Pellucid hoverfly, witte reus 🇳🇱, hvitbåndet humleblomsterflue 🇳🇴 (volucella pellucens)

Common Clubtail/ Gomphus vulgatissimus

Male

Macho

It's been so warm that my Blue Mason Bees are hatching.

Tech Specs: Canon 90D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT (E-TTL mode, -1 FEC). This is a single frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Photo and Clarity in that order. ISO and shutter set to expose for the natural light in the background.

Blue Metallic Leaf Beetle Larvae - Olympus OMD E-M10 Mk III, Fotodiox Micro Four Thirds Macro Extension Tube, Olympus 15mm F/8.0 Body Cap Lens.

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Pearl Crescent butterflies mating - Lensbaby Burnside 35, Fotodiox Sony E-mount Macro Extension Tube, Sony A7S II

Madeira Butterfly, Butterfly World, Coconut Creek, Florida.

Die Große Heidelibelle (Sympetrum striolatum)

Diese elegante Libelle zählt zu den häufigsten Arten in Mitteleuropa – und dennoch ist sie ein faszinierendes Wunderwerk der Natur! ✨

Merkmale

🔹 Rötlich-brauner Körper (bei Männchen intensiver rot)

🔹 Klare Flügel mit bernsteinfarbenem Ansatz

🔹 Charakteristische schwarze Streifen an den Beinen

🔹 Auffällig ruhiger Sitz – perfekt für Fotografen! 📷

🌿 Lebensraum

Sie liebt warme, sonnige Orte und ist oft in der Nähe von Teichen, Seen, Kiesgruben oder auf offenen Wiesen zu finden. Flugzeit: Juni bis Oktober, oft bis in den späten Herbst hinein! 🍂️

💡 Fun Fact:

Libellen sind echte Flugkünstler – sie können in alle Richtungen fliegen, sogar rückwärts! Und sie fressen täglich das 10-fache ihres Eigengewichts an Mücken und Fluginsekten 😲

🐉 Libellen gelten in vielen Kulturen als Symbol für Wandel, Geschwindigkeit und Klarheit. Ein starkes Tier – sowohl optisch als auch symbolisch!

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🔖 📍Gesichtet in Bayern / Franken

📷 Sony Alpha mit Teleobjektiv (200–600 mm)

🕐 ISO 200 | f/6.3 | 1/1600s

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©️ Taken by me -> @ah93_photography

🔁 Teilen nicht vergessen, wenn’s dir gefällt!

❤️ Liken, ✍️ kommentieren & 📌 speichern, um nichts zu verpassen!

📲 Unterstützt den Algorithmus & meine Leidenschaft für Fotografie 🙏✨

This green bottle fly is sporting some great raindrops after a sudden rainstorm

Butterfly World, Coconut Creek, Florida.

Vielen Dank für d en Besuch meiner Seite, die Favoriten und die Kommentare. Ich freue mich sehr darüber!

Thank you for visiting my page, for your favorites, and for your comments. I really appreciate it!

#insectology #tinyheads #photomacrography #insectphotography #macrophotography #insect #canon #100mm 2.8 #fly

backyard capture in chesterfield

Devils Dyke, Cambridgeshire

Der Hauhechel-Bläuling (Polyommatus icarus) ist ein Schmetterling (Tagfalter) aus der Familie der Bläulinge (Lycaenidae). Innerhalb seiner Familie stellt er die häufigste und verbreitetste Art dar und wird daher auch als Gemeiner Bläuling bezeichnet.

A small scarab covered in waterfall mist. The metallic green on the beetle is not pigment, but structural color (a result of micro-structures that reflect only certain wavelengths). If you look closely within the droplets, the green is refracted into other hues of blue and purple. (Dichelonyx sp.; Montana)

Portrait shot of praying mantis

Aularches miliaris( Gaudy Grasshopper)

19september 2021

Morni, Panchkula, Haryana

EM1X 300f4

1/1000sec, f4, ISO 160

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Diesen Grashüpfer konnte ich letztens Abends bei Sonne ablichten.📷💯 Sehr schön wie die Sonne durch Ihn teils durch scheint. 😇

Mantis enjoying its prey, it caught it by imitating the grass blade.

Green lacewings are delicate insects recognized by their translucent, intricately veined wings and bright green bodies. While the adults are easy to overlook, their larvae are formidable predators of aphids and other small arthropods, making lacewings important members of both natural ecosystems and gardens.

Photographed in Lucerne, Switzerland

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It's been so warm that my Blue Mason Bees are hatching. I found this one semi-active on a Daisy.

Tech Specs: Canon 90D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (set to 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT (E-TTL mode, -1 FEC). This is a single frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Photo and Clarity in that order.

Photographed in the Osa peninsula, Costa Rica

(Ballad written by "Slim Willet", 1952, and popularized by Perry Como)

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I noticed this Mining Bee cleaning out debris from her nest and camped at the entrance to see if I could get a few photos. Once she decided to come out we played "BeeKaBoo" cause I accidentally scared her back down into the tunnel a few times.

Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (almost 2x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Denoise AI, Sharpen AI, and Clarity in that order.