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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.
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 :)
Mélanople birayé, parc des rapides, LaSalle, (je crois qu'il me voit dans son œil.) (Merci à Sylvain Messier pour l'identification)
Tachinid fly Siphona species on a camellia leaf. Focus stacked using zerene. They have an interesting folding proboscis
Finally I found another interesting bug to photograph. Very martian looking I think. Between the rain showers and the wind, it was a challenge.
Common Morpho (Morpho Pelides).
This is a shot from a few years ago ... I've never been able to capture anything this good since, despite having much fancier equipment at my disposal.