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A sunny day, a nice leaf to have sex on, what more could two insects ask for ?
Have a really HAPPY day.
It seemed to have got itself caught in a spider web on some old bailing twine but while I was attempting to take its photo it managed to escape.
Help needed with positive ID - I thought it may be a midge full of blood but that is just an uneducated guess.
Goliath Stick Insect (Eurycnema goliath). Photographed this morning in the eaves of our verandah. You can't tell the scale from the photo, but it's a beauty - body is at least 25cm long.
Saw this blighter on our garden pond plants but I don't have a clue what it is. Now confirmed as Hover Fly.
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.
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"
This spider was just outside my front door, happily content, enjoying the warm summer sun...
Because I had to stand on my front door steps to take this photo I could not use a tripod...
Camera: Olympus E620 dslr
Software: Corel Paint Shop Photo X3, Topaz DeNoise 4 & Photomatrix Pro ver 3...
Essa foto fiz no Passeio Público quando saà pra fotografar com a fantástica fotógrafa Raquel Santana. A bichinha ficou paradinha e deu pra fazer fotos bem próximas, essa foi a que eu consegui chegar mais perto.
A type of sawfly. Here the male (on the right) has given the female a fly to eat why he 'has his way with her.'
This photo was commended in the bbc insect close up masterclass photo competition :)
Site: www.ukwildlife.org.uk
Male damselfly mating. More shots from the archives :)
see www.flickr.com/photos/lordv/354668047/ for other end
Some insects are beneficial for crops and some are destructive. This researcher is rearing pest insects to find better ways to combat them.
Crane Fly
A crane fly is an insect in the family Tipulidae. Adults are very slender, long-legged flies that may vary in length from 2–60 mm (0.079–2.4 in) though tropical species may exceed 100 mm (3.9 in). Up until recently, all of the members of the families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, and Pediciidae were included within Tipulidae (at the rank of subfamily); they all share the same common names, and similar biology and morphology. Crane flies are commonly mistaken as "giant mosquitoes".
In the United Kingdom, Ireland, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia they are commonly referred to as daddy longlegs or dandy longlegs,[1] but this name can also refer to two unrelated arthropods: members of the arachnid order Opiliones (especially in the United States and Canada) and the cellar spider Pholcidae (especially in Australia). The larva of the European crane fly is commonly known as a leatherjacket. These larvae can cause damage to lawns by feeding on the roots of grass plants.