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

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9/12/2021

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

Hoverfly feeding.

Resting on Braken, catching some rays.

Celastrina argiolus

little insect feeding on the honey inside the flower .....

I've no idea what this is. It was sunning itself on the bonnet of the car, hence the reflection.

Orange dragonfly

Insectes / Insects

This one must be lodging with the miner bees in the garden

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect

Small tortoiseshell butterfly. Highdown gardens Worthing

Hoverfly. Xanthandrus comtus. Focus stacked using zerene

Not sure what type of fly this is that i seen during a walk in the lomond hills.

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insect and flower

Mines Road, Alameda County, California. Seen at night. Thanks to Dennis Haines on bugguide for the identification and the details.

Two similar species - Prionus californicus and Prionus lecontei. Differentiated based on whether the antenae show 12 or 13 segments. In P. californicus segments 12-13 are fused into one.

"Prionus adults emerge from midsummer into fall, move about nocturnally and drawn to light, may fly into windows at night, crashing violently. Among the largest of the long-horned beetles, Prionus adults may be over 2 inches long with grubs growing over 4 inches long. Prionus califonicus range from Central California to Alaska and east into the great basin states and Eastern Washington." (from www.bentler.us )

2 Ants

Lightroom toning > PE very little Dyn. contrast, sharpening

Sweat bee on potentilla flower. Lasioglossum sp. Focus stacked using zerene

At RSPB Saltholme

Applied Wavelet Noise reduction to this with pleasing results

Davidsons Marsh

First honey bee of the year resting on a miniature pine.

Someone on a macro forum mentioned honey bee scouts were out and about but I said I had not seen any, and of course the next day what do I see... .)