I have this other hobby where I take pictures of insects and arachnids and cry over needing a better macro lens.

I'm not entirely sure what kind of dragonfly this is yet, but I'll look it up, unless someone else would like to ID it for me. It was at a gas station in California in the desert-y area between Modesto and Fresno.

Burying or sexton beetle hanging out on a fungus under a dead tree.

Looks like a Rose chafer (or goldsmiths Beetle). However the antennae and triangle above the wing cases are dissimilar. Anyone help with definitive identification?

Stick insect seen in the Serengeti, Tanzania

AAfrica.5 2006 200

Japanese Tiger Beetle, "Hanmyo".

have tons of syrphid fly photos, it is one of my most common models to learn how to make macro photos :) and they are almost always very good models, stay still and dont know the fear :)

Insect hunting

on a meadow within the city of Łódź borders, Poland

Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia). Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland

Tiny beetle about 2.4mm body length exploring a sun chair. Focus stacked using zerene stacker

Location: Upper Peirce

Unidentified

Taken in Douglas,Isle Of Man.

This tiny insect I have presumed to be a leafhopper but cannot discover its name despite it's colourful apprearance.

Can anyone help please?

Wolves Wood is in UK in County of Suffolk in East Anglia.

Canon 500D+Entension Tube+50mm 1.8+Flash

black vine weevil / Gefurchter Dickmaulrüssler auch Breitmaulrüssler / Otiorhynque de la vigne ou charançon noir de la vigne / Otiorhynchus sulcatus

Ladybird on Brussel Sprout leaf

Taken at Magic Wings in Deerfield, Ma.

Cicadella viridis

A few more of the Black Darter photos from the other day

Summer 2011, Rye, New Hampshire

A beautiful big lemon yellow wasp. There were quite a number of these on Eryngium flowers. They were probably all males, as they just lounged about on the flowers and showed no interest in looking for bees to carry back to nests.

Can some of you more knowledgeable about arachnids, give me a positive ID?

To me, they look like they may be Brown Recluse, but I'm not sure.

lesser jewel beetle

Shropshire UK

Gulf Fritillary Butterfly. Nipomo, CA

Male Common Blue butterfly (Polyommatus icarus) at Newchurch Common, Cheshire, UK.

Taken at Pulau Ubin, Singapore.

Two walking-stick insects mating in a garden in McDonald's Corners, Ontario Canada. The small brown one is the male and the much larger green one is the female.