appelée mouche jaune sur l'Ile Maurice

Male common darter dragonfly on a cane. Natural light

The afternoon sunshine reflecting off this beautiful insect.

Spiney Leaf Stick insect.

Werribee Open Range Zoo.

Werribee.

Victoria.

I'll fill up the name once I got it.

Size: up to approximately 5cm in length.

Front view

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The Scaeva pyrastri is a distinctive hoverfly with three pairs of comma markings on the abdomen.

As in most other hoverflies, males can be easily identified by their holoptic eyes, ie, left and right compound eyes touching at the top of the head. This is a female as the eyes are not touching.

Taken with Nikon D3100 with 18-55mm kit lens

A Wasp Mantidfly (Climaciella brunnea) on a Common Milkweed plant (Asclepias syriaca) at Distant Hill Gardens in Walpole New Hampshire.

To see more insects found on Distant Hill, go to:

www.distanthillgardens.org/insects/

Small Dolichopid fly. Taken at 3:1 mag. Not a very good shot but I don't normally see Dolichopid flies at this time of year

Another fly on a camelia leaf

Flower: Anemone hortensis ssp heldreichii

Insect: no idea!

If the ID is right, these are parasitoids of walking sticks.

Laphria saffrana

Big Creek Scenic Area

Sam Houston National Forest

San Jacinto Co., Texas

14 April 2011

Shots from the archives

Argia fumipennis (male, dark-winged form)

After a bad night at work this little guy showed up in my backyard and cheered me up.

10-spot variable ladybird on echium leaf. Focus stacked using zerene

Warton Crag Nature Reserve, Lancashire 20.06.2012

taken with EF 50/1.8 & Kenko extension tube (no crop)

very colorful specimen showing purple, green, and even a hot pink sheen when the light hit it right; Wells, York County, Maine

I made this one a long time ago, using a homemade 'macro' lens consisting in a 50mm normally attached to the camera and another lens (I think it was a 90-300) inverted, attached (using bore hand) to the first one. A lil crappy and jerry-built set, but I somehow like the outcome. Taking the pic was tricky, I had to encircle the ant with some drops of water to prevent it from escaping [I later released it so... no harm done to the ant at all!!;-)] . The next tough task was to be able to find and focus the ant, as DOF was a matter of 1 or 2 milimeters...

one of many Andrena flavipes emerging in the front border

This large white butterfly was photographed at butterfly world in edinburgh, home to many foreign species.

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think this may have been a failed nest, or just the queens nest as it was very small....

A dead centipede found in the Bank of North America collection

Insectes