This was identified by Bug Eric in the comments. "The bug is an "ambush bug" in the genus Phymata, family Reduviidae. They wait on flowers for bees and other insects to come within striking distance."

Photographed September, 2009 in a field in Lakewood, Colorado, near Red Rocks Community College. Other view next in my photostream. This is the only time I've ever seen this insect or this flower.

Bug in macro

Dunno, folks, just twisted the heck outta this one! ;-)

For added goofiness, View On Black

insectos electronicos

A shiny orange bug in front of a not so shiny house in the North Oakland section of Pittsburgh.

Spotted this "Skinnbagge" while shooting the Art Promenade. It is the official landscape bug of Södermanland, and as we are in Södermanland, it was very appropriate of the bug to pose for me.

Bug infestation on our window bird feeder

On calcareous grassland in Jersey

Some kind of bug... Came across three or four of these (not so little) guys.

This one posed for my camera... :D

he always likes to rub himself on my lens when I'm trying to take pictures...

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This bug-eyed fish was one of the few at the Seward Sea Life Center that would hold still for a picture. It is also one of the ugliest.

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Mysterious bug found living under a dining room table. Moths were eating the persian rug and he seems to have been eating the moths.

Location: Toronto, Canada [but I've never seen anything like this before. My guess is that he was a stowaway in some traditional chinese herbal medicines.]

robot victim at santa rosa SRL show

Large milkweed bug

Ah, spring! The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, and the bugs are spattering themselves across my face shield with reckless abandon.

A shield bug on an old buttercup stem.

I attached an (ancient - circa 1998, un-branded but made-in-Japan) 2x teleconverter to my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L in an attempt to gain 2:1 magnification. These were some first attempts, which aren't faultless, but I'm pretty pleased with how much 'closer' I could get.

no name..just an orange leader dot D:

and my EE has 186 days on it..wtf?

Sea Anemone on the Coast

I don't remember where I took this. I think this is a grasshopper, but don't take my word for it.

Photoshop: crop, curves, hue/saturation, layers, eraser

Fire bug on the rim of an Arum lily flower

Just a bug on a lily. There is no alteration to the original image other than cropping.

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD950 IS

Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)

Aperture: f/14

Focal Length: 23.5 mm (110 mm equivalent)

ISO Speed: 80

Macro Mode

Flash fired

Young green stink bugs look like this one that was resting on the trumpet vine.

A bug that became trapped in the LCD of a 17" PowerBook G4

So tiny I thought at first they were seeds that had blown onto the leaf!

Poised on leaf with amazing green eyes.

Shield Bug. With my sony A200 with old sigma 28-80 reverse mounted on my sony SAL1870 kit lens

Michael kept telling me to take the costume off because she was probably hot! I just love this outfit!

paper bugs by bond_free

Dense flat rubber bugs. Likely late 1950s or very early 60s.

With an HDR twist

Have not seen this species before. No foul smell at all. rather timid. P.Malaysia

Oncopeltus fasciatus in various stages of life. They are feeding off a couple milkweed seed pods that look conspicuously like a lobster claw.

I did not expect to see these boatman bugs near Bullfinch.

In early November we camped overnight near the dry saltlake - Lake Deborah and set up our camp table with a LED lantern. Many insects came to visit.

Emerald, QLD, Australia

Gotta love the registration on this one! This was parked on the courthouse side of Prescott's Whiskey Row.

Finally outside the height of spring! So I thought I'm gonna show my bugs brooches that I made 2 years ago :) They're handmade painted.

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More chalk painting images from I Madonnari during the Memorial Day Holiday

Aphra has a go with an enormous stick insect.

Its a shield bug emerging from a meadow flower.