Harlequin ladybird on bamboo leaf

Sunny summer afternoon, dragonfly resting on car antenna.

Thanks to Barry Warrington for the ID.

un peu rare à cette saison, on les voit plus au début de l'été, voire au printemps.

www.inra.fr/opie-insectes/pdf/i148brulin.pdf

www.bestioles.ca/insectes/ephemeres.html

www.bestioles.ca/insectes/ephemeres.html

www.insectesjardins.com/Ephemeroptera.htm

foret-fontainebleau.over-blog.net/article-l-ephemere-l-in...

Wikipédia: [Les éphémères constituent le groupe d'insectes ailés le plus primitif et, du point de vue phylogénétique, représente le groupe frère de tous les autres ordres insectes ailés. Près de 2 500 espèces sont recensées dans le monde, répartis en sept familles. Insectes de tailles moyenne à petite, ils sont associés au milieu aquatique où les femelles pondent leurs œufs.

Les adultes (dits en France « mouches de mai ») sont connus pour avoir une durée de vie très courte (leurs pièces buccales atrophiées ne leur permettant pas de se nourrir) contrairement aux larves qui peuvent subsister jusqu'à trois années. Celles-ci sont aquatiques et peuvent être phytophages, détritophages ou carnivores.]

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

Same ladybird larva a little later tackling a bigger aphid. Focus stacked using zerene

My first sign of spring.

insect .. flowers

macro

Plume moth

Taken in the park at University for Peace

Brookside Gardens Wings of Fancy Exhibit

Le clairon commun (Trichodes alvearius) - Cleridae

This is a photo of a generic flying insect

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Loads of these around ;-)

This taken Natural light without flash

In my back garden

Rhagonycha fulva / Common red soldier beetle / Rood soldaatje

Eight-spotted Skimmer Male

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They're normally pretty reliable, emerging on St Mark's day, but this year they were out a couple of weeks ago.

Hell in a handcart.

Any thoughts on this being an immature or female Swamp Spreadwing? Quite a large damsel and wasn't able to get the whole length in focus.

Dragonfly

Spotted:

* ohgodmywifeisgerman.com/2013/05/06/

Nature & Insects

klein vliegje

This is a photo of a butterfly and I did not take it, pepemos took it

the link to the original is

flickr.com/photos/miraloqueveo/1293347113/in/pool-olympus...

I thought that it was a good photo and I wanted to do something with it...

this is the first time perhaps the only time I edit someone else's photo

Dagpauwoog / Peacock butterfly

Shieldbug Dolycoris baccarum

Help - I've run out of fuel - a honey bee rescue. A rather tired looking honey bee sitting on a potentilla flower totally unable to fly. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Marmalade hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus enjoying some sugar/honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

Female miner bee feeding on Euphorbia. Andrena sp.

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another fly variation

Allons à ConFesse

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A very beneficial predator of whiteflies, aphids, and larvae on agricultural crops, it is only about a quarter inch long. Here it is nectaring on a Queen Anne's Lace.

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