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J'ai vu plusieurs Cicindèles hier qui se promenaient ou se posaient sur le sable du seniter au soleil... Au soleil son coprs brille comme un bijou... Un joyau, un émeraude!!
La Cicindèle champêtre est un beau coléoptère vert, parfois bleuâtre, plus rarement noirâtre. C'est un insecte chasseur redoutable d'une grande rapidité et d'un appétit féroce. Elle attrape ses proies à la course et effectue des vols courts en cas de danger. Sa larve, également carnivore, vit dans un terrier vertical où elle attend qu'une proie passe à sa portée.
Higgins Lake, Roscommon, Michigan, USA.
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WONDER exhibit, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Jennifer Angus (1961– )
In the Midnight Garden
2015
cochineal, various insects, and mixed media
Courtesy of Jennifer Angus
"Angus's genius is the embrace of what is wholly natural, if unexpected. Yes, the insects are real, and no, she has not altered them except to position their wings and legs. The species in this gallery are not endangered, but in fact are quite abundant, primarily in Malaysia, Thailand, and Papua New Guinea, a corner of the world where Nature seems to play with greater freedom. The pink wash is derived from cochineal insect living on cacti in Mexico, where it has long been prized as the best source of the color red. By altering the context in which we encounter such species, Angus startles us into recognition of what has always been a part of our world."
This Stag Beetle was the size of a tennis ball and it wasn't happy!!Uncovered when clearing the garden at my parents house in Reading - 23.6.2006
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Something different today. A little color for us to remember summer :D
This is my first attempt at real insect macro. This fly has settled on a leaf in our garden for the night and let me fiddle around it for quite a while.
To bad mosquitoes weren't as tame and really prompted me to go inside much sooner than I would have liked.
105 mm macro lens with extension tubes. SB-26 flash @ 1/8 power close by...
Lepidoptera : Riodinidae
Villeta, Colombia, Junio 2010
Concuerda un poco con el color de las alas de varias otras fotos en Flickr.
Las otras fotos que encontre de mariposas similares (Melanis electron, y otras) fueron tomadas en Venezuela, Ecuador y Brazil, asi que la region tambien concuerda.
O mas parece ser Isapis agyrtus.
From wikipedia:
Crane flies are insects in the family Tipulidae, resembling giant mosquitoes. Like the mosquito, they are in the order Diptera (flies). Adults are very slender, long-legged flies that may vary in length from 2 mm to 60 mm (tropical species may exceed 100mm).
Numerous other common names have been applied to the crane fly, many of them more or less regional, including, mosquito hawks, mosquito eaters (or skeeter eaters), gallinippers, and jimmy spinners. In the United Kingdom they are commonly referred to as daddy long-legs, but this name can also refer (especially in the United States) to two unrelated arthropods: members of the arachnid order Opiliones and the cellar spider (Pholcidae).
At least 14,000 species of crane flies have been described, most of them (75%) by the specialist Charles P. Alexander. This makes the Tipulidae the largest family of Diptera. Despite the large numbers of species, the juvenile stages of most crane flies are unknown; less than 2% of the species' larvae have been described.