please help me name them

Seen being held by my granddaughter.

Taken from inside as it crossed the glass of the window. I love the colours on its exoskeleton.

Photographed in the studio using a Canon EF 100mm f2.8 macro with a Canon EF 50 f1.8 reversed onto the front to give ultra close-up. Lit with an Elinchrom studio flash to give f22

Spittlebug (Family Cercopidae) on a grass stem. Blow away the foam and you will find a small green insect nymph that will immediately start to blow additional bubbles to cover itself once again. Mt. Pleasant (Howard County Conservancy), Maryland

It kinda looks like a grasshopper, but I'm not sure.

comma butterfly

Pea/bean weevil - Sitona sp. Focus stacked using zerene

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

Greenbottle fly on potentilla. Natural light

Large hoverfly Volucella zonaria on hebe

Drone fly hoverfly on camellia- natural light

N D200, FL 180mm (T), 1.4 TC, 1/60sec-F/11, Aperture Priority, ISO 400, Flash: TTL, Handheld, Kent Ridge Park, Singapore, 28 Feb 2008.

on a little purple scabious

Another Summer shot

insects attracted to light

Macro shoot @Mountain View

Canon 550D

Canon 50mm f/1.8

Macro extension lense

I think this is the model they used to design the alien ships on the movie, "The war of the worlds"

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I do not understand the insect's name.

The Butterfly

Been going back and reprocessing a number of my images this past week using MacPhun Intensify Pro and Focus 2 Pro

Yesterday this thing came in and fluttered around the light. Anybody know what kind of insect this is? It's quite large - I would guess about 8 - 10 cm including antennae. I think I've found the name: Ophion ventricosus (correct me if I'm wrong)

Photographed in Nottingham, UK

Female common darter dragonfly in the front garden

Pachyrhinus scutellaris

ef35-80 Lens hack

The broken shoulder stripes, forming exclamation points, are the key to identify this small damselfly. Ischnura posita, Coenagrionidae. Central IL, Summer 2013.

BlackWater River Escambia County Florida. These insects were everywhere at the River Bridge boat ramp near Pace.

They are from 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.

~11 mm

18 May 2006

They are so interesting. This guy was hanging around a water fountain. [Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona]