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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.

Taken at wicken fen river,Ely.

2d to 3d converted image, use red cyan glasses to view

The wasp beetle, Clytus arietis does a passable imitation of a wasp. When it walks it is an even better mimic, as it very accurately mimics the way some solitary wasps zig zag about on leaves.

Gulf Fritillary Butterfly. Nipomo, CA

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.

Monarch Caterpillar eating Butterfly Weed. My complete photo archive is available here.

Acanthocephala terminalis. ID from Bugguide.

a Green Shieldbug basking on an agapanthus leaf in the front garden

Monarch on our swamp milkweed.

another of the froghoppers, this is much smaller than the common but i cant find an ID in my books

Number 13 in 100 Picture (2014) : Movement.

A Small Tortoiseshell on the move

Auf meinem Hundespaziergang überquerte diese Heuschrecke die Straße.

Ich hatte leider nur die Möglichkeit zu Schnappschüssen.

 

During my walk with my dog this grasshopper crossed the street.

I only have had time for some snapshots.

Photographed on the Kent Wildlife Trust Reserve of Bonsai Bank.

The Comma has white markings on its underwings resembling a comma. The wings have a distinctive ragged edge giving the Comma the appearance of a fallen leaf.

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

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