View allAll Photos Tagged Insects

The coloring of different species of grasshopper are often dependent on environment. Many species are adapted to green fields and forests, and blend in well there to avoid predators. Others have adapted to drier, sandy environments and blend in well with the colors of dry dirt and sand.

Lema cirsicola

About 6mm size. At Mt. Takao

Not a bad 'macro' effort with the 100-400. Didn't get many shots, way too many horseflies trying to grab lunch :(

it took me around an hour to get a decent image of this kind.

Male common darter dragonfly on a wire. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Paul from Natural World Experience came to our photography group tonight with some of his 'beasts'.

For Macro Mondays Theme Anything goes, Mai 30, 2016

Monarch Butterflies at the San Diego Botanic Gardens.

An 11-week old dachshund puppy showing off.

Insect in Bangladesh

Over 4000 species of Muscid flies throughout the world in around 100 Genera. The species include some house flies and stable flies. Not one i have seen around the house but there are plenty of these in the garden.

Nach der Paarung legt das Weibchen Eier, aus denen sich über verschiedene Stadien Schmetterlinge entwickeln.

 

Ob die noch im Herbst schlüpfen werden, bin ich mir nicht sicher.

 

Ich wünsche euch allen einen wunderschönen und sommerlich warmen Sonntag.

If you want Monarch Butterflies, plant some Milkweed. They are forever entwined in each others lifecycle as well as plenty of other actors in the process. My back porch this afternoon.

Green Drake Mayfly - Ephemera danica. Staplford. Herts.

An exhausted bee feeding on sugar water I put out for him. He flew away a very happy chap a few moments later.

Found this beetle whilst walking in the lomond hills today.

Do the greens seem off to anyone?

Bassingham, Lincolnshire

1 2 ••• 9 10 12 14 15 ••• 79 80