Nice fly . . .

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Largish Ichneumon wasp. Strong natural light

Peacock butterfly on the budlia bush

Week 51 - More negativism for my penultimate week...this moth landed on the outside of my window.

Look closely, he's eating a fly.

Miner bee on Euphorbia

Ladybird

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I love bees!

Small boxing day hoverfly. Focus stacked using zerene

Monarchs feeding on thistles. It was a poor year around here for butterflies and the news is especially bad for the Monarch Butterflies. Monarch populations are in great decline due to habitat modification in many parts of their range, especially the central US where so much native prairie has been turned into cropland. I had one day in the fall when I saw many Monarch Butterflies feeding on thistles. They were probably gearing up for their migration south for the winter. This particular site in the photo is CRP land, former agriculture land converted back to prairie habitat. Fall 2013, Central IL.

To read more about Monarch population declines, check out this NY Times article

www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-mon...

and an article about trying to help Monarchs by planting Milkweed plants, the preferred food for their caterpillars: www.nytimes.com/2013/12/21/us/setting-the-table-for-a-flu...

Small Braconid wasp

My wife handed her camera to our three year old son, asked him to take a picture of Daddy and this happened!

Insect from order Orthoptera, suborder Caelifera (Czech: řád rovnokřídlí, podřád saranče) captured in Prague.

Plus jolie sur fond noir.

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Still to be named and was taken in Sri Lanka, February 2014.

Insect حشرة

コスモスを撮っていたら、カマキリの赤ちゃんが飛んできて私の左手中指にとまりました。

カマキリは苦手ですが、小さくてとっても可愛かったです。

身体を揺らし、何かを探しているようでした。

「お母さんじゃないねん。」というと、飛んで行ってしまいました。

Request: If anybody can identify/recognize this species, please let me know. Or any suggestion where I can get more info of this species.

...... loved the sunglow on his wing tip

Bark fly looking for some toilet tissue. Taken on one of my water barrels. Focus stacked using zerene

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Another red mason bee female grabbed by a male as she emerged from her nest tube.

Smallest fly I've spotted. A gall midge I think taken at 5:1 FF coming in at 0.8mm body length

At Noblitt Park - Columbus, Indiana

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Here's another view of this little 1/2' beauty. The colors and patterns are just amazing.

Thanks to Mark Schall for the ID www.flickr.com/photos/32946513@N08/

Uma jacinta vista de perto! Foto em Benfica, Belém do Pará.

Macho adulto de libélula roja

Another hoverfly at rest. Natural light

A rather plump signal fly on a camellia leaf. Sepsis sp.

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