Shropshire UK

This handsome hoverfly is a regular in my garden. Liden, Swindon, Wiltshire, UK. 2013-08-26.

Liden. [?]

Nearly 5cm from head(pincers?) to rear.

Best viewed on black

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

love is all arround

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand

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caterpillar ( Monarch)

Photographed on the Kent Wildlife Trust Reserve of Bonsai Bank.

Can't resist snapping this guy whenever I see one.

diving into a lovely yellow calendula, in our garden

I have been re-reading "the Lord of the Rings" trilogy recently and immediately noticed the finely-crafted armour! Dwarf work?

Graphocephala versuta

I erected a stick in my patio. I noticed that dragonflies like to sit on it and wait for flies to pass by. I can see this stick while I watch TV and as soon as I see a dragonfly I get out and photograph it. This is first time I saw a blue green dragonfly. Usually only black dragonflies sit on the stick.

Only 4/5mm in size

Messingham nature reserve, North Lincolnshire

Photo taken in Hopkins County, KY.

Beautiful leaf insect, Phylliidae. More amazing examples of camouflage in nature: orionmystery.blogspot.com/2012/12/camouflage-in-nature.html

Hero Swamp Darner dragonfly sitting on my hand.

It;s the rainy season... time for all little maggots to grow up and dance around the light at night.

Here on VBC was looking around at small shrubbery and found this little guy guarding the gates to the green palace.

Hemiptera, Pentatomidae nymph. Probably Asopinae, Podisus sp.

Members of Asopinae, also known as predatory stinkbugs or soldier bugs, are set apart from the other pentatomid subfamilies by the essentially predaceous feeding habits of nymphs (with the exception of first instars) and adults. In addition, they are often observed to feed on plants, a habit that provides them with moisture and perhaps some supplemental nutrients.

He stands so elegant like a knight. :)

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Unknown insect found along a path near a small pond in northeastern Oklahoma. Approximately one inch long.

a beautiful male Scymnus interruptus ladybird found in the front garden roaming through foliage of Libertia - thanks to Richard Comont for confirmation of id.

First miner bee of the year, a female, feeding on euphorbia. Focus stacked using zerene

California Sister

The bees are in love with my Hot Papaya Coneflower (yes, it is a real thing-- a gorgeous variation of the coneflower). Who could blame them. They are so extraordinary. Don't you want to be in love with something extraordinary??

Scientists have found a new species of prehistoric insect, Cascoplecia insolitism preserved in amber, a tiny "unicorn" fly with an unusual set of eyes.

The fly, found in a 100-million-year-old chunk of amber from a mine in Myanmar, has a small horn on the top of its head with three simple eyes on top, in addition to two larger compound eyes.

www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/10/28/tech-insect-unicor...

Photo: George Poinar

I tried to get a picture of the hoverflies hovering, but I'm always too slow.