Acantocino By Sirgo Alvarez

Flying Cyclommatus metallifer By Katsuta Kyohei

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqrINSxGj9c

# Today's Posting. Insects

I want Summer back!

Hoverfly

Epistrophe elegans

Thorpe Bay, Essex

he stands on my window, and after shotting, my closeup filter fail at an altitude of more than 10m

There are times I am SO glad I am not a flying insect! Wished I could have released him but I would have harmed him more if I had tried.

Damselfly, Minnippi Parklands

Sympetrum striolatum

a insect dancing on the grass.

Sony Alpha500, Minolta 100 mm macro

Location: Subang - Indonesia

A rather damp Harlequin ladybird larva after some rain. Focus stacked using zerene

Ladybug on hemerocallis leaf

Peacock butterfly sunning itself on tree stump

Lepidoptera : Erebidae

Raleigh, NC USA, July 25, 2010

A video clip of a 0.5mm long female Anagrus atomus parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae family walking and preening under water. It was found in a yellow pan with approximately 50mm depth of water, but it was alive and walking. When the pan was moved it fell over and was affected by the fluid movement, but as soon as the water became still it continued on its perambulations. On many occasions Mymarid wasps have been observed under water in seemingly good health for quite some time. Once helped out of the water they are able to preen and recover their ability to fly after a short time, provided the process of exiting the water is gentle. Scelionid wasps found in water appear dead and unmoving yet frequently recover after drying.

Few more of these appearing in the garden - think this is fairly recently hatched judging by the pale eye colour.

on Nature-Sam's finger - Cliff and Fleurs Outside light great for attracting moths

Chinche

Soldier fly Sargus bipunctatus. The "Autumn" soldier fly. Sitting on an azalea. Focus stacked using zerene

I discovered that full grown walkingsticks are a very difficult subject for macro photography last year when my only subject - a monster of about 6 or 7 inches - took two steps toward me and kept on going, climbing up my arm like I was a tree and reaching the top in just seconds. So when I found several nymphs at Wickiup I was very happy - they are far less bold. This one is only about an inch and a half body length.

Another one was chewing on the edge of a dandelion leaf - probably trying to keep from wasting away altogether!

Phasmatodea phasmida, perhaps. Id corrections appreciated.

Dragonfly

Profile shot of the dragonfly, taken in Nantwich.

An L2 Macleay's Stick Insect (Extatosoma tiaratum) nymph.

Plant hopper nymph

Its definitely spring, the weather has been good for a couple of days and many insects are out and about. This is the first photo I have managed to get of a butterfly in Britain this year

Cratichneumon culex ? ♂

Banded demoiselle Calopteryx splendens (f)

Taken using a recently acquired Olympus OM1 35mm SLR camera.

Agfa Vista ISO400 film, processed in the Tetenal C41 kit.

Hoverfly on camelia leaf feeding on sugar/honey syrup

How do you like this beauty?? About 15cm long.

Information about Stick insects here.

Podacanthus keyi Thanks Marius Merk for the ID