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"Orange you glad to see me?" - Gulf Fritallary or Passion Butterfly
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Small beetle on grass blade. Think it's a Cereal Leaf Beetle - Oulema melanopus.
Focus stacked using zerene
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"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.
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.