Bumblebee

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This is an Anise Swallowtail caterpillar feeding on Fennel flowers. It looks like it is going to eat another bud, but actually I disturbed it when I bent the flower around into better light and it reared up displaying its horns (osmeterium). They emit a foul odor (which I did not smell) and are a defense again parasitic wasps laying their eggs on its body.

MLK Shoreline RP, Oakland, CA

don't know what this is but he apparently likes the leaves on my apple tree

Grasslands installation, State Library of Victoria, City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Hymenoptera: Halictidae

Thanks Ken Walker for ID!

This image represents one in a series of biodiversity photorecords gathered as part of the insect ecology, biodiversity and conservation project The Little Things that Run the City.

This project was co-funded by The City of Melbourne and RMIT University, and is part of the core research being conducted by the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub of the National Environmental Science Program. Findings from this project have contributed to the City of Melbourne's Nature in the City urban ecology and biodiversity strategy.

Insects

Lady Bug posing nicely on some grey sedum. Lovely little creatures :)

Whatever it is, it scares me

Apis mellifera

Lantana camara

Broad bodied chaser

This fellow probably awakened from hibernation by the unseasonable warm temps only to discover that his green camouflage doesn't quite fit in yet.

I don't remember where this picture was taken.

Saw this on car's bonnet

Ichneumon wasp tucking into sugar/honey syrup. Taken with a canon 60mm macro lens and 65mm of ext tubes. Focus stacked using zerene

Small plant bug feeding on an ox-eye daisy

Celastrina argiolus

A type of insect, I am seeing for the first time.

Male European Paper Wasp.

Pyronia tithonus

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

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Small tortoiseshell butterfly. Highdown gardens Worthing

I had been overlooking these in the woods thinking they were normal wasps but realising they are more black than yellow

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

Jumping spider with prey