Natural sunlight !

"Orange you glad to see me?" - Gulf Fritallary or Passion Butterfly

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‎Graphium leonidas

Until I met this butterfly, the name Leonidas was associated only with the epic film 300.

OLYMPUS TG-2

Male march fly on grass blade. Focus stacked using zerene

2 Ants

La Moixina (Olot) - Girona - Spain

Nikon D90

Tamron 18-270

Lightroom toning > PE very little Dyn. contrast, sharpening

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ8 + Raynox DCR-250

Small beetle on grass blade. Think it's a Cereal Leaf Beetle - Oulema melanopus.

Focus stacked using zerene

The Insects are the most diverse and important group of animals on land. There are more species of insects than all other land animals put together.

Drinker moth caterpillar

Not sure what type of fly this is that i seen during a walk in the lomond hills.

LSH shoot

"You have to leave now, and never come back here. Have you ever heard of insect politics? Neither have I. Insects... don't have politics. They're very... brutal. No compassion, no compromise. We can't trust the insect."

- From the screenplay The Fly by Charles Edward Pogue

Female with prominent ovipositor. Found mid-day on a sidewalk. Cell phone photo from just a few inches away.

DuPage Co., IL

A rather damp and dejected drone wasp I originally found upside down on leaf with it's wings stuck in some water. Too much hair gel I think :)

Trichopoda pennipes. A little bigger than a house fly (and a lot nicer looking.) Parasitoids on squash bugs and some other true-bug agricultural pests.

a macro photo of a ladybird,not easy trying to get a shot when they keep walking lol,i used my cheap but very good raynox lens for this

I took a picture of this little one yesterday afternoon in our day lilies. It was fascinated by my camera lens and kept trying to get closer, turning its head to look more carefully. Lots of fun to photograph, though I must say baby praying mantises are TINY! Focusing wasn’t easy, especially when the breeze kept blowing the day lilies around.

Male Hylaeus bee on hebe leaf. Natural light

Soldier fly Chloromyia formosa male. Focus stacked using zerene

Custom Mega Munny for Pinkghost Bricks and Mortar closing party December 10th available for purchase at: www.pinkghost.net

Sorrento, Florida

Sony DSLR-A850 with Minolta AF 100mm f/2.8 Macro Lens

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Scelionid wasp on a leaf. About 1.8mm body length

Always worth checking out the garden plants in the evening :)

Spotted this Green Shield bug settling in for the night lol.

Unlike Darters he didn't take to my flash and flew off only to land on our Confers where i took a few more shots :))

One of the first pictures I made with my DSLR. The bee stayed on that leaf for quite a long time so I managed to make a lot of shots and this is the best one.

I don't have special macro lenses yet...

Sofia, Bulgaria

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