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This beautiful female Blue Dasher sure did give this sick old lady a wonderful opportunity for lots of photos. I really enjoyed her. Hot summer here and I still can't get out anywhere. Thank You, Jesus, for beautiful bugs in God's garden!
Sally and I enjoyed watching a Trash Bug in our garden last year. The 2020 one isn't quite as colorful (see comments section). I went inside to look for a bit of glitter (to see if he would pile it on), but he disappeared and then it rained.
For Macro Mondays theme; "Multicolor. HMM!
*(I found this little bug crawling around in our woodpile. He was too cute to dispatch, so I decided to leave him there. His face measures one and a half inches wide, by one and three quarters inches from chin to top of his antennas.)
Bug Parts selling rusty old hoods and engine covers from old VW's on the ground at a flea market in North Carolina.
Fulgoridae: Phrictus quinqueparitus
Read about rainforest bugs and other cool stuff at the Wild Tropics blog!
Edited in NIK Collection I:
Color Efex Pro 4
Contrast color range
Polarization
Skylight filter
Graduated neutral density
Top Row, Left to Right: Pale Treehopper (Entylia carinata), Leaf Hopper, nymph (spp.) and Aphid (sp.), Meadow Spittle Bug, nymph (Philaenus spumarius).
Middle Row, Left to Right: Twice Stabbed Stink Bug (Cosmopepla lintneriana), Jagged Ambush Bugs (Phymata sp.), Large Milkweed Beetle, nymphs (Oncopeltus fasciatus).
Bottom Row, Left to Right: Assassin Bug (Sirthenia carinata), Assassin Bug (spp.), Ants (spp.) with Oleander aphids (Aphis nerii).
I've searched the bug sites and sent the photo off for ID. Nothing yet. Taken in an azalea flower bed in North Central Louisiana (Ouachita Parish) on April 2nd, 2016. Bug is approximately 15mm in length. No behavior noted!