Butterfly feeding on purple plant

www.gpnc.org/honeybee.htm

Insect

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

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

A caterpillar close up in my own backyard

Jumping plant louse (Psyllid) on a milkbottle top taken at 5:1 FF. 2.3mm body length

Gonepteryx rhamni

Macro

Shiawassee NWR, Saginaw, MI

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

Braconid wasp having a wash

Large just like its name. This mosquito does not bite. This insect shows luminescence when photographed.

Seymour, CT

Stick insect from Iwokrama, Guyana.

Wasp in flight.

Amazing wildlife at Footscray park.

Drawn on 9" x 12" using ink, pencil and colored pencil

I really hate spiders, but I broke down to take this picture.

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

Tokina 100mm f/2.8

Ballyhoura, Co. Cork

Dolichopid fly female. Focus stacked using zerene

A little double upload of this little insect. I remember looking down at a grass seed stalk in sunlight and seeing something red. Thinking a cool red "hair" growing out of grass seed would make a cool photo, down I went and only discovered the red "hair" was antennae coming off this incredibly small insect which I could only see through my macro lens. I have no clue on an ID.

The first is a close up of the guy, the latter set against a bokeh-bow (hehe).

Judging by the number of queens about at the moment think we might be in for a bumper wasp year- had very few last year.