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Fantastic with the transparent plastic furniture and dome-shaped record player and porthole style window.
AI image (DDG - Krea 2 Turbo).
my son on a bug hunt
A man was nice enough to give my son a butterfly that landed on him because he saw us looking for insects. We thanked the stranger and put the butterfly in our jar. On our way back to the car we saw a giant beetle running across the trail. We caught it and threw it in the jar. As we were getting close to the car I looked in the jar and saw the beetle munching on the butterfly! I couldn't believe it, he was really going at it. Baffled, I came home and scoured the internet trying to identify the giant hungry beetle. It turns out, out of all beetles we could have came across and put in the jar with the butterfly was one called.....a caterpillar hunter
Bug on our tent. Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California. Violet filter and lighting effects applied.
My sister sent me a text message while we were at the shops, saying she'd found some little bugs under the leaf of one of their tomato plants. I had my camera with me, and their house was almost on the way home, so we decided to drop in to take a few photos (and see my sister and her family, of course...that was the only way I could get Josh to leave the shops!).
Well, these are the tiny bugs. I have no idea what they are. But they were very little, and they didn't really move much. My sister had thought the bugs were eggs, until she saw some move, and then saw the white eggs.
I am grateful for people who take an interest in and help me with my photography hobby (and other hobbies too).
This doesn't quite look the same as the Nomad in a previous shot although eyes and antenna look the same.
Taken in Kimberley Nottinghamshire, UK
A bunch of bugs flying around an outside light.
Note: First image uploaded with the sharing sheets with OS X Mountain Lion!
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These flowers are ridiculously tiny --- how itsy-bitsy does that make these bugs?? :)
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The photographs in my set, "Weed Flower Micros," may appear to be close-ups of regular-sized flowers – they are not!
These are micro (macro) photos of tiny little flowers which bloom on ordinary weeds found in my lawn.
How tiny? The largest weed flower in the set is only, when measured across its widest part from petal tip to petal tip, 3/4" in diameter (19mm)!
Some of these miniscule flowers are so small that the entire blossom you are looking at is 1/4" in diameter (6mm)…or smaller! Again, that’s measuring from petal tip to petal tip across the widest part of the bloom!
The smallest part of a weed flower that I have managed to successfully shoot and achieve good detail in is a photo I made of a bud that measured LESS than 1/32" in diameter (0.7mm) across its widest part!
For size references I have included a photo of certain flowers and buds next to the head of an ordinary paper match, which dwarfs the blooms and buds.
It’s delightful to discover the beauty, complexity, and variety in something so small that it’s easily ignored, taken for granted, dismissed as a pest, or just downright difficult to see with the naked eye.
And it’s an even greater delight to realize that this incredible beauty has been growing wild in my lawn, year after year, right under my un-seeing eyes as I’ve repeatedly mown them down with my lawn mower, never realizing the unseen beauty that I was trampling under my feet.
I hope you enjoy viewing these as much as I do. I have a lot of fun making them for us to look at!
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See more of these incredible, tiny jewels in my NEW SET, "Weed Flower Micros – II:"
www.flickr.com/photos/motorpsiclist/sets/72157627844487270/
And peruse 400 photos in my original set, "Weed Flower Micros:"
Hey! Look where you're going! :)
Saw this guy speeding towards me, and as you can see he saw me too!
[ Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM ]
The Camas are all but done blooming for the year. This plant and ones nearby have been affected by various bugs. There may not be any (or very few) seeds from these plants this year. There should be 20-50 seed inside this pod.
Cicadas were droning about everywhere and are among my partner's favourite insects, so he insisted I photograph this one. :) Wentworth Falls area of the Blue Mountains, NSW.
A hoverfly, also known as a flower fly or syrphid fly, is a type of insect that belongs to the family Syrphidae. Hoverflies are found all over the world and are known for their ability to hover in mid-air, much like a helicopter. They are often seen hovering around flowers, where they feed on nectar and pollen.
Hoverflies are beneficial insects because they play an important role in pollination. They are attracted to brightly colored flowers and are often mistaken for bees or wasps because of their similar appearance. However, unlike bees and wasps, hoverflies do not have stingers and are harmless to humans.
One interesting feature of hoverflies is their ability to mimic the appearance of other insects, such as bees or wasps. This is a defense mechanism that helps protect them from predators. Hoverflies also lay their eggs near aphid colonies, and the larvae feed on the aphids, making them a natural predator of these garden pests.
Overall, hoverflies are important insects in the ecosystem and are beneficial to gardeners and farmers because of their role in pollination and pest control.