Small muscid fly on hibiscus syriacus seed pod. Focus stacked using zerene. See www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/30899299150/ for a 3D version

This moth was very small, maybe an inch across the wingspan. I took the photo from the wrong side of the window. When I went outside to photograph it, it flew away before I even got close. It looks familiar but I haven't researched yet.

A rather bright beetle on a miniature Hebe - assume it's a lily beetle. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

Nature & Insects

Jumping plant louse on a water barrel lid. Focus stacked using zerene

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Mega song!!! Whooo!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkATJ4kzHkM My kind of music!!!!!

U2 lyrics ... The Fly.

Thanks to Sandeep for providing this great link!!!

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A man will beg

A man will crawl

On the sheer face of love

Like a fly on a wall

It's no secret at all

Fly Stomorhina lunata feeding on potentilla - well feeding on a drop of sugar honey syrup I'd placed there. Focus stacked using zerene

ladybird

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Henri Rousseau

textures thanks to Skeletalmess and Renquedochan.

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Hoverfly feeding on sugar/honey syrup on a camellia leaf. Eupeodes sp. I think.

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While on my hike this morning I came across a friendly Grass Hopper that seemed to want me to take his picture. So I obliged him :)

This one was done hand held in order to get really close. I had to use a larger aperture in order to get the shutter speed fast enough for a hand held shot and that reduced my field of focus.

He does look happy though. Don't you think?

The Colletes bee following fly. Miltogramma sp. These are klepto parasites of the bee.

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July 2016

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Jumping Bush Cricket - Orocharis saltator. In my backyard in Central PA. About 20mm long.

This grasshopper was on a tower between a marsh and a forest in Western New York state. Any ideas on what kind it is?

Dragonfly perching on its favoured tent peg.

Cicada in flight.

I wasn't too happy that the bird stayed behind the foliage here; but I think there's enough of it and its catch to still appeal - hope you agree!!

Captured a couple of weeks ago during a birding session at Hunter Wetlands Center (Shortland, NSW; Australia) with good mate and fellow flickr member Joe Micallef.

Thanks for any comments, views or favorites for this or any of my other images - always very much appreciated!!!

Have a tremendous day and week!!

Taken at the Butterfly Place in Westford, MA.

Juvenile Leaf Insect

Methona themisto

the crane fly looks like a large mosquito but they are more related to flies rather than mosquitoes. they are also considered to be the largest group of flies. they are not known to bite animals nor people. the fly in the photo is around 6 cms long

Can't resist thinking this little guy looks like an alien (at least what I imagine them to look like) :)

A female common blue has seen better days. I imagine getting swept up in my sweep net didn't help.

I normally can't stand bugs of any shape or size, but I couldn't stop chasing this little guy around to get a shot of him.

I have no idea what kind of....

RAIL TRAIL, BLACKWATER, ON, CANADA

A crab spider waiting. Focus stacked using zerene

Narcissus fly hoverfly on ox-eye daisy. Natural light