Spotted a very odd 4 winged fly hanging from a leaf. Turned out to be mating dance flies complete with prenuptial meal for the female

Sympetrum danae / Schwarze Heidelibelle

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

A Field grasshopper i found at charlottetown.

Insects

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

Papillon « Le Robert-le-Diable », Polygonia c-album

est une espèce de lépidoptère de la famille des Nymphalidae,.

Nom scientifique : Polygonia c-album

Classification supérieure : Polygonia

Sympetrum danae / Schwarze Heidelibelle

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

Colletes sp. bee on ox-eye daisy

Asilide (mouche assassine)

Small plant bug feeding on an ox-eye daisy

Male soldier fly Chloromyia Formosa. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Celastrina argiolus

This little critter was walking all over some fungi on the forest floor, a good subject to train the macro lens on. f4, 1/1250 sec ISO400

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

After visiting ROM's exhibit: Fantastic Beasts:The Wonder of Nature, decided to share this image of a tiny bizarre creature I photographed some time ago. Any idea what it is?

It is a cicada!

Male European Paper Wasp.

Muscid fly on the lookout on a sunchair

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‎Graphium leonidas

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

inseto.

Small tortoiseshell butterfly. Highdown gardens Worthing

2 Ants

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