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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest creature, and take an insect view of its plain.

-Henry David Thoreau

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Grasshoper

Sphex lucae, one of about 100 species of digger wasps. 15-20 mm long.

flash is fired beneath from the leaf !

Explored!

This image was captured in my garden. I managed to get quite close to the bee.

small bee I found this very hard to photograph as its head was down right away when landing

bee/wasp/bumblebee/???

Påfågelöga (Inachis io) är en fjärilsart; den enda i släktet Inachis. Den förekommer i stora delar av Europa och Asien.

Påfågelögat har ett vingspann på 55-65 mm och dessa kännetecknas av tydliga blå ögonfläckar mot en rödbrun bakgrundsfärg. Äggen som är gröna och ovala läggs huvudsakligen på nässelblad och kläcks på cirka en vecka. Larven är vitprickigt svart, och växer under en knapp månad innan den förpuppas. Påfågelögat ligger i en gulgrön till brun puppa i cirka två veckor.

Det vuxna påfågelögat söker sig företrädesvis till röda och blå blommor; särskilt ängsvädd, hampflockel och olika arter av tistelsläktena Carduus och Cirsium, och den kan förflytta sig långa sträckor för att finna dessa.

This is the second time I spotted a fly blowing a bubble and then sucking it back.

I have a large piece of plywood that leans against my house out back. Right near the porch light which is on all night long. So lots of insects are attracted to the light. I use my camera with flash to document what shows up. Got a stink bug lifer at 9:10 pm. This will make my 12 species of stink bug to photograph in DFW.

Green Burgundy Stink Bug (Banasa dimidiata)

Garland, Texas

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Bellos reflejos del agua que corre por el Rio Achibueno,

Clever bumble bees. Having tried the Mk1 bee feeder - a milkbottle top with some foam stuck on top of a cane with honey/sugar syrup in it. I've been thinking of how to overcome the inevitable problem that ants eventually find it and take it over. Well saw a small animal water feeder in the supermarket that hangs down. Stuck a couple of pieces of Velcro either side of the nozzle for grip and put some honey sugar syrup inside. Hung it up in a bush in the evening and next morning the bumble bees had it all worked out and were hanging off the nozzle feeding. I expect the ants will eventually work out how to get it but I was impressed that the bees worked it out so fast.

Swan Creek

Found this insect in my house, I have no clue what this is...

I love the structure in the wings!

I'm looking forward to spring, there will be much more insects to take macro shots of...

Dallas Fanning NP

Life and death in Arthropods. The large bug is attacking one of the bees, Apis, that visited the butterflyweed, Asclepias tuberosa, in my wife's flower garden. I didn't hang around to see the rest of this episode. I probably should have.

Any help in identifying the predator would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! (Licht~~~~ has identified this insect as a Rhynocorus. I am grateful. I'll go with that, unless someone has a different suggestion.)

Larger sizes are available. Thanks for looking.

ID please

Hoverfly feeding on crocus pollen. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Myathropa florea

It's a tiny treehopper, Fulgoroidea, Ricaniidae

Small male miner bee on a sunchair. Focus stacked using zerene

4 spotted chaser, I think!

Had me chasing it around Rixton Clay Pits for 4 hours or more at the weekend.

Not sure what it was. About 4 inches long and made a buzzing noise.

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I am not sure what those tubes are hanging off her face...looks like she is vacuuming off the diving board! i am thinking this is a bit more than i need to know about what a ladybug face looks like!

macro in the garden