Seeing this one today gives me hope that they're coming back to this area.

Bogbean is a perennial plant, that flowers from May to July. The flowers are pollinated by various insects like this shiny little Chequered Hoverfly~Melanostoma scalare

Correction - the darter dragonflies are still about. Sitting on a sun chair

insect world

For the second year in a row, the rare Bombus affinis!

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

The fly

Aeshna cyanea

Derbyshire

An immature male found by the front door.

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Leighton Moss

Nikon P510

Fox Maple Woods

Wisconsin State Natural Area #282

Florence County

Hoverfly in the garden.

© Mike Broome 2015

Oud beesie hoor, van juli, leeft waarschijnlijk niet eens meer....

Ik heb nog een berg foto's liggen die ik nog wil plaatsen, dus daar gaan we!

I'm back....after a terrible busy time!

Seattle, WA

Copyright 2006 - Scott Dart

Red-headed Cardinal Beetle / Rotköpfige Feuerkäfer / Cardinal rouge / Pyrochroa serraticornis

Thanks to Ole

Family Asilidae, Subfamily Brachyrhopalinae

Maiala, Mt Glorious

Brisbane

Note short orange halteres behind wings

Москва, Орехово

View On Black Large

Polygonia comma, Nymphalidae. Black Hand Gorge State Nature Preserve, Licking County, Ohio. Dorsal wing surface.

Barbitistes fischeri - Phaneropteridae

Best Viewed on Black

Captured with a Canon 30D and Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro lens. I also used this DIY Ring-Flash

Hat Yai, Thailand

This is my Week 25 shot for the View 52 group. Am pleased my lovely Astrantia flowers are all blooming at the moment and are alive with bees and a few insects.

My View 52 set for 2013 is here: www.flickr.com/photos/janflicks/sets/72157632452274758/

This is the link to the View 52 group: www.flickr.com/groups/view52/

Laying eggs on our garden waste container. Woudrichem, NL.

A lone common soldier beetle (Rhagonycha fulva) on cow parsley.

An arachnid victim.

He flew in the house when I let Jimmy Dean in the house.

Insect

Love this insect

Wheel Bug