Hoverfly Syritta pipiens in a mollis azalea. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly

Like those dragons!

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by William Blake

Leaf hopper on a water barrel. Focus stacked using zerene. Love the colour of these little bugs

None of the flies (or other insects) in my photos are frozen or dead. None have been manually 'posed'. All are photographed alive and well in their natural environment, unless they are being killed or eaten by another insect in the photo.

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...shaking that grass :)

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dans mon jardin à Souillac (Lot)

Fruit fly on melon skin

Fruit fly on melon peel. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene. Oshiro 60mm

Butterfly love

Muscid fly on leaf

Technique: I'm not sure why it happens, but sometimes a bee's metabolism will drop and they become immobile. Sometimes it happens due to drops in temperature, or when the sun goes behind the clouds on a cool day. But that normally effects small solitary bees, not large ones like this bumblebee and it was at least 23C (73F) when I took this photo.

Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F13, 1/60, ISO 200) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens with 25mm of extension + a diffused MT-24EX with head "A" set as the key and head "B" as the fill. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.

Not sure what order this is..

Hymenoptera?

Vichada, Colombia

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First Nomada bee of the year. Focus stacked using zerene

Wasp queen. She did turn round to see what I was doing. Focus stacked using zerene

Bury, UK

Honey bee resting on one of the borage leaves

Another Common Darter lets me get close :-) Loads of these around at present

Leaf Beetle

agrion

Work of my friend, Kiki...

Soldier fly Chloromyia formosa female on a water barrel. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Syritta pipiens on Japanese anemone flower. Focus stacked using zerene

The zombie apocalypse has begun! (Bugun?). Head for the hills (not that it will do any good).

So, does anyone know what species this was before it was turned into a zombie?

(Just to clear up any confusion, this is a perfectly healthy fly. I just think it looks like a zombie)

Taken yesterday in the Elan valley. Having taken a landscape shot or two I returned to the car and this fly obligingly landed on a side window. I got nice and close.

I have cleaned the window since. HBBBT!