Skipper closeup

20mm extension tube

A male.

January 2016.

Madagascar.

Green shield bug on my hand

Another shot from butterfly world today. This locust is from Africa,Asia and is 60mm in length.

Location: Upper Peirce

Azure damselfly- natural light. Recently emerged and still colouring up. Slightly odd patch on it's eye.

Slide 11: Bumblebee on Tobacco Leaf

Small Tortoiseshells on Michaelmas Daisy. 1

bee eating mango.

I found this under a rose leaf - not sure what this bug is doing or what it is - it is just neat looking. (Newport News, Virginia)

Identified by Speech Path Girl: Golden Tortoise Beetle, Charidotella sexpunctata

Link: whatcom.wsu.edu/ag/homehort/pest/GTB.htm

Thanks Speech Path Girl

Small sawfly on my finger. this was a rescue from a pond - thought it was a small bee but I couldn't really put it back when I realised it was a sawfly

More miner bees

Arcigera Flower Moth (Schinia arcigera). Larvae feed on Asters. Meadow Brook Park, Maryland

Honey bee on my hand. Focus stacked using zerene

Calico Pennant

Celithemis elisa

Photo taken at Bear Lake in Munson Florida within the Blackwater River State Forest.

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Below the cliff at Rowena Crest, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon

Shield bugs. Tend to favour our raspberry bushes as home, but mating here on a rhubarb flower. First sighting of green specimens, all previous years' have been an uniform brown.

Shot in my yard.

Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris

Edinburgh World of Butterflies

Ant macro taken at approximately 3:1.

Shot with a Canon 40D using an MPE-65. Canon MT24-EX for lighting.

Please check out my gallery for my other insect and spider macros.

Greg Bulte

At Fountains Abbey near Ripon, North Yorkshire.

Photo by Mary

Dragonfly having an insect for lunch. Let's hope it's a midgie.

Taken near Hunterston Castle during a walk from West Kilbride to Largs, Ayrshire, Scotland.

So beautiful... sad to know that the average lifespan is 2 - 4 weeks!

Insect trying to move spores of the atoxigenic strains produced for up to three weeks on sorghum grain carrier after Aflasafe field application from colonized soil surface to maize cobs displacing the toxin producing strains.

Box Elder

'garage door bug'.