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My very first picture of a butterfly!

Average, yes, but I'm really happy about it! :D

found on dry heath

Sullington Warren 28/06/2013

D3S＆105micro

...which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you"

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Can you tell the difference between a damselfly and a dragonfly?

spotted this half cm. insect on a leaf. anybody know what it is?

Sprayed some camelia bush leaves with a sugar/honey spray during a brief period of hazy sun to see what I could attract. Got a few bluebottle flies and about 4 dungflies feeding on it.

Olympus pen e-pl3 + Vivitar 55mm. F2.8 macro

7-spot ladybird on camelia leaf - another slightly unexpected visitor feeding on sugar/honey spray

on a warm orange calendula which I grew from seed

Taken with my 35mm/2.0 lens.

Macro

"Un simple battement d'ailes d'un papillon ... "

Nikon D7000, Sigma 150/2.8 macro, f/5.6, 1/320, ISO 200, handheld

Singapore

An ant met a ladybug on a leaf of a cucumber.

In a private vegetable garden of my parents

畑にはたくさんの天道虫がいて嬉しくなります＾＾

I believe this to be an Eight Spotted Forester, but if anyone knows differently, feel free to let me know.

Stick insect from Iwokrama, Guyana.

Chauliognathus pensylvanicus - Goldenrod Soldier Beetle.

Fiery skipper and, Chinese mantis. Not sure how this came out.

Mariposa lobito agreste

Small Chalcid wasp feeding on sugar/honey syrup

An aged Syrphus sp. hoverfly. Focus stacked using zerene

"...Les chrysopes permettent de réduire l'utilisation d'insecticides contre les pucerons et autres petits arthropodes nuisibles, ce qui a ainsi un impact favorable sur la protection de l'environnement." Wikipedia

"... the larvae are active predators and feed on aphids and other small insects. It has been used in the biological control of insect pests on crops." Wikipedia

Dungfly on camelia flower bud. Seemed to match the colours rather nicely :)

Tokina 100mm f/2.8

Dolichopid fly female. Focus stacked using zerene

This wasp was eating the garden chair that I was sitting in, I believe they use the wood to make their nests, they usually make a nuisance of them selves but this one was not the slightest bit interested in me. Fascinating creature close up .