perfect specimen - grasshopper

Admiralty Park - Morning

Finally, I found a single ladybug!

Mating dronefly hoverflies. First time I've managed to capture them. Focus stacked using zerene

Hoverfly Eupeodes sp. egg-laying

Anyone know what kind of butterfly this is?

Custom Mega Munny for Pinkghost Bricks and Mortar closing party December 10th available for purchase at: www.pinkghost.net

This brave Soldier Beetle gives me the big clear off as i closed in yesterday :-)

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.

Always worth checking out the garden plants in the evening :)

Spotted this Green Shield bug settling in for the night lol.

Unlike Darters he didn't take to my flash and flew off only to land on our Confers where i took a few more shots :))

One of the first pictures I made with my DSLR. The bee stayed on that leaf for quite a long time so I managed to make a lot of shots and this is the best one.

I don't have special macro lenses yet...

Sofia, Bulgaria

These were everywhere in the grasses on the track from the Centre of NZ to our home.

Spider

Chiang Mai, Thailand

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ODT: 11/30/2012: The insect world.

112 Pictures in 2012: #79: Insect or Spider

Probably Ocyptamus fascipennis. About 15 mm long. The flower is bee brush, Eysenhardtia texana. Searight Park, Austin.

Cell Macro

Another emergence on May2nd. I persuaded the dragonfly to climb onto a stick. Natural light. Focus stacked using zerene

Harlequin ladybird

Sur des fleurs de lavandes

Dans le vocabulaire commun, le mot bourdon désigne des insectes sociaux ou solitaires, qui ressemblent aux abeilles dites « domestiques » (et productrices de miel).

Les scientifiques nomment « bourdon » uniquement des insectes jouant un rôle majeur pour la pollinisation de nombreuses plantes à fleurs de la strate herbacée

Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia

Chlorochroa ligata

Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary, Saanich, BC

This handsome bug - a "true bug" of the Hemiptera order - is also known as a stink bug, because it exudes a smelly substance when it is disturbed. It is also called a turtle bug and shield bug, because of its shape. Stink bugs go through five "nymph" (juvenile) stages between egg and adult, with changes in size, color and even shape occurring with each molt between stages (instars). This is a fourth or fifth instar nymph; the adults are less colorful but have wings, a fair trade-off. This bug, which is about the size of a thumbnail, was crawling around and feeding on a Canada Thistle (Cirsium arvense) plant, using a "beak" on the front of its head to pierce the stem and suck out juices.

Perth hills

O casi...

Porque la mariposa arrugada que apareció ayer parece ser una Maniola jurtina, de la muy noble familia Nymphalidae y subfamilia MANIOLINA.

El misterio ha sido resuelto por Alberto Gil Chamorro - no se pierdan lo que Alberto nos cuenta DESDE SU TORREÓN-, y Antonio Camacho -no se lo pierdan, que si se pierden luego no se encontrarán bien, así que visiten su IMPRESCINDIBLE GALERÍA

Gracias a ambos.

¿A que no parece la misma de ayer?

Buenos días.

from Ecuador Megadiverso: www.flickr.com/andreaskay/albums

Butterfly Rainforest, Gainesville, Florida

Winter gnat in spider's web. Focus stacked using zerene. You can clearly see the sticky beads on the web strands

...the froghopper found in a froth Known as cuckoo spit :)

Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire

Insect spy drone

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand