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

insects

1.25 inches long

Cigarra-rabo-de-galo

It all come down to this one simple thing.

Nikon 20mm f4.0

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

Saint Ouen en Belin juillet 2018

Not sure why this got explored. They must have had a slow day.

For Macro Mondays Theme Anything goes, Mai 30, 2016

Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris

Cranefly sitting on the fence. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/30025846697/ for a 3D version

Cute, isn't he?

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El Prado municipal park, Curridabat, Costa Rica

I didn't notice these bees until I worked on the photo on my computer.

Insect in Bangladesh

Butterfly at rest on Bagonia.

I hope you're all not sick to death of these insect cuppies, but here's some more!

DD D'arcy had a class party today, which she told me about yesterday afternoon. The only thing I could do was take some left over cup cakes out of the freezer and decorated them as quick as I could. I wanted to do something different so I used up some spare pink fondant I had rather than use any more or my precious red.

These are so popular I think I may be making more. What colour next? Maybe blue?

Hawthorne shieldbug. Focus stacked using zerene

This one landed perfectly for me to focus on it. Seen far more of these this year than last

Looks like a great Dragonfly...or so...

Large view!

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.

Mitchell Lake, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas

Found this beetle whilst walking in the lomond hills today.

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My yard visitor

Bassingham, Lincolnshire