Explored sep. 24. # 270

Phocides polybius

I was only commenting on a friends photo of this lovely hawkmoth this week and saying that I had not seen one for several years to find this in my conservatory this morning

“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.”

Leonardo da Vinci

Textures by Ellenvd.. no's 73,71 and 48 :)

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Le machaon (Papilio machaon) - Papilionidae

This mantis entered our sitting room last night so I put him under a light and took some closeups.

(Am I the only one who sees a resemblance to Australia's new Foreign Minister?)

Mitchell Lake, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas

Soldier beetles, doing what comes naturally!

garden spider ... texture by iPiccy

Nikon D500, 85mm f/3.5 Micro VR, 1/320, f/14.0, ISO 100, Profoto A1

My Insects and Animal set

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Have not made an attempt to classify this species. It is a rather large insect, body size approx 2 cm. Insect-on-glass-111014(1)

Red Headed Cardinal Beetle. Stapleford Herts.

Bark fly on a leaf (psocid)

Chrysomèle noire

Plant bug on water barrel. Focus stacked using zerene. I think it's Capsus ater

An Alien?

Sweetpotato bug

(Par Vincent). Guêpe.

Sathonay-Village.

My wife found this wasp crawling out from under the back of my shirt after I finished cooking on the grill. It must have been trying to get warm.

Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. I used a artificial flower to keep the background from being black.

Dance fly hanging around on a grass blade. Spotted this when I was doing a dewdrop refraction the other morning. Focus stacked using zerene

Olympus OMD-EM1 Mark II

Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 60mm f/2.8 Macro

Flea beetle on aged camellia leaf

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Found at Swamplovers Nature Preserve in southern Wisconsin. Dane County, Wisconsin, USA.

Found on small sapling in mixed hardwood forest.

Single exposure, uncropped, handheld, in situ. Canon MT-24EX flash unit, Ian McConnachie diffuser.

Takumar 50mm f/1.4 at f16 with zenit extension tubes