Yesterday while I was taking shots of the sawfly for the stack I posted, I spotted this tiny Springtail. I had the camera set up for stack, flash off and wide open lens. So took a few shots and this was the only one that almost made it! Had to crop heavily and fool around trying to make sense of it. So lots of noise etc. I vey seldom see these here. By the time I had reset the camera the little guy had disappeared, not to be found!

Large red damselfly. Strong natural light

Primate Lodge, Kibale National Park, Uganda

Grasshopper's larva(Length about 12mm)

An aphid memorial. An aphid parasitized by a wasp . Focus stacked using zerene

Today in the back deck herb garden

Macro Shots of Insects

Région Mont-Saint-Hilaire / Otterburn Park

Photo Gilles Arbour

At Hilton N R in Derbyshire.

Bumble bee on my finger. Focus stacked using zerene

You might want to have a look at it in original size !

These metallic looking guys have a larger fleeing distance than the one from yesterday. Although there were plenty around, I didn't get that much pictures from them.This one I like the most from the view shots I was able to take.

Taken at natural light with an MP-E 65 at 1x magnification.

I was very surprised to see a cold looking Queen wasp the other day, sitting in a variegated holly bush. It eventually felt the warmth of my hand and walked on. It was beginning to get rather dark from in coming rain clouds so I took it into the Porch

Stick insect

I am not much of an insect photographer, but this one did not chase me so I stood my ground and took a picture.

Daggerwing Nature Center, Boca Raton, Florida

Drone fly hoverfly feeding on ivy flowers. Natural light

Taken by the River Avon, beneath the Avon Dam near Shipley bridge, Dartmoor, Devon.

Plant bug - think it's Deraeocoris flavilinea

Cereal leaf beetle in the grass. Focus stacked using zerene

In our garden

Mt. Cuba Center, Hockessin DE

Leaf of Drosera peltata, with insects trapped on its sticky globules.

If you look closely, you can see the head and antennae of the insect it just caught and is starting to eat.

Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand

Small sweat bee sticking it's proboscis out

Archibasis mimetes, male. Coenagrionidae. Murrinja Boardwalk, Daintree National Park, Queensland, Australia.

Enjoyed last summer days in the lavender willow

A Common Plume moth on the trunk of a birch - head on view in comments is viewable larger with a simple click (you know you want to)

Caught these two at it after I was trying to get one of them in flight (failed miserably) taken with my 70-300mm APO lens

Interesting and unusual "alien" insect

Found a cold and slightly damp nomada bee sitting on a Philadelphus leaf the other morning. Focus stacked using zerene

I rescued this libel from my house...It flew inside and couldn't get out anymore...

I sat at my desk and proceeded to use my printer and front and center was this insect. Does anyone know what this is?