The wheel bug, Arilus cristatus (Linnaeus) or assassing bug is a scary but beneficial bug that preys on pest insects. However, its bite can be more severe than a bee sting, and both nymphs and adults should be avoided or handled with caution. (It looks like a killing machine)

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Pic from 14. May 2022

picked these pickles up few days back. ;)

The bug.

A hue processed macro.

I just bought myself a Surface Pro 4 and tried tethered macro photography for the first time.

These aphids on the underside of an ornamental plant were all the wildlife I could find in our garden. In all seventeen images under artificial light, focus stacked using Helicon Focus 6. Hopefully I can find something more exotic as it gets warmer.

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Striped bugs having a concert.

Dead Bugs bunch of old VW's waiting to be salvaged in this group shot in North Carolina.

Red-bellied Woodpecker ready to pounce...

Common in my rear yard.

Stack out of 35 pictures created with Helicon Focus.

Curious little Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher seemingly not quite sure of what to make of an intruder in its domain.

Common and abundant.

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Pitcher plants... meat eaters

These plants can grow in the Pacific Northwest, just give them a 'swampy habitat' and light so the flies and bugs see them and are attracted....and pang.... they will be eaten!

A vintage automobile in the ghost town of Lake Valley has headlights like bug eyes. I bet this car was a beauty in its day!

I found this critter feeding on the Black-eyed Susans.

Our gardens are teeming with insect life if we just take the time to stop and observe...

Happy Labor Day everyone!

happy thursday from bug! 😸

*helios 44m-4 58mm f2*

hello from bug for monochrome bokeh Thursday!😸

*carl zeiss jena flektogon 35mm f2.4*

graphosoma lineatum

Canon EOS M50

TAMRON SP 90mm F/2.8 Di VC USD MACRO1:1 F017

ƒ/14.0 90.0 mm 1/200 200

Spined soldier bug (member of the stink bug family) sucking the life out of a black swallowtail caterpillar. This event took place on a dill plant that the caterpillar was feasting on.

Spotted in the fields beyond Captains Wood on my walk this morning.

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

Looking straight up a wall mounted glass display case at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, full of bugs on pins.

Pair of striped bugs (Graphosoma italicum) copulating on some umbelifer.

Para strojnic włoskich (Graphosoma italicum) kopulujących na jakimś baldaszkowatym.

Our Garden. The centre of our sunflower.

Canon EOS M50

EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

ƒ/7.1 45.0 mm 1/200 100

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