Doing what everyone does when they first get a macro lens. Bugs and teeny tiny flowers:)

Wasp worker enjoying some sugar/honey syrup

Denmark May 2016

My favorite shades of blue.

Aeshna mixta

explored

A dragonfly who paused near me.

Dungfly antics - feeding on a sugar/honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

That's my best general guess. ID anyone? It's about the same size as a honeybee.

It's sipping nectar from Sea Lavender.

MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA

Lower Rhine, Germany.

Ravine Gardens State Park, Palatka, Florida

Incoming !

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Au Parc après une ondée estivale.

Coccinelle, demoiselle

Où t’en vas-tu donc ?

Je m’en vais dans le soleil

Car c’est là qu’est ma maison.

Bonjour, bonjour, dit le soleil,

Il fait chaud et il fait bon.

Le monde est plein de merveilles

Il fait bon se lever tôt.

Edmond ROSTAND

there were loads of these flying when l went to the shops, it must be the second brood and day 265 of my 365

Le Grand Bombyle

Plant hopper on a water barrel.. Focus stacked using zerene

Plant bug on hollyhock. Focus stacked using zerene

On a cold and windy day, insects were hunkered in sheltered places, like this very lethargic daddy long legs, hunkered in a geranium leaf.

Lavilletertre Oise 08/90

Minolta 700si

Starting to dredge the archives now for pics from the summer that didn't make the cut

HBW!

with prey

at MIT Killian Court

Macro Monday

Harlequin ladybird. Focus stacked using zerene