I was hanging out the washing when I spotted this chap on a dead fritillary leaf.

Dashed doors grabbed theCanon G9 and only managed this shot before it flew off.

Have no idea what it is so can anyone offer a polite suggestion?

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It had a brown back with a white mark on a wing.

Sorry nothing more to add it was gone all too soon.

These guys sit fairly still for macro shots, and come in a variety of green blue, and yellow metallic colors around our Koi pond.

Muscid fly on fence.Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Red ants tending a flock of black aphids

A Japanese Mushi Kago (Insect Cage) made sometime around the 1960s, displayed here with a Bamboo Cricket inside to show the scale.

Lens: Schneider Kreuznach ..old Lens f5.6/150mm GF

Nikon 1 V1

a Nalassus laevioctostriatus beetle, one of five seen under bark of a fallen tree in Battle Great Wood

Thanks to Rockwolf for confirmation of id.

Well, I never knew flies 'cocked' their leg. ;-))

View LARGE On Black

Who can resist to photograph those shiny green eyes?

ヒラタアブの仲間(Syphini species)

The insect cannot act when the temperature is low.

What is it?

@vinicmelllo

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

A very wet male miner bee on my finger drying out a bit after some rain

Tirumala septentronis 小紋青斑蝶

They sure can sting:-)

youtu.be/3zGbibn5xmY

Saw at a park of Hong Kong

Stink bug on my conservatory.

クロウリハムシ(Aulacophora nigripennis)

I'm guessing this is some kind of wasp. No doubt someone will know.

Bluebottle fly portrait - feeding on sugar/honey syrup. Focus stacked using zerene

Diptera : Syrphidae

Book Caption: Sphecomyia vittata (Diptera : Syrphidae) This is a fly that mimics a wasp. It is about the same size as Vespula sp. wasps. I knew that this was a fly and not a wasp because I noticed the halteres. Only flies have halteres. Flies have 1 pair of wings, where as wasps have 2 pairs of wings.

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

SEE ORIGINAL--- Bumble bee buzzing around our porch. Shot many pictures. This was cropped from an image as small a the head on this bee.