Found this guy on coneflower this morning.

Spotted this ladybird resting on an aquilegia leaf in my garden. Ready to take flight with its wings beginning to open I had to act fast. A few images and it had flown.

Are you wearing masks? ;)

Oaxaca, Mexico

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Smile on Saturday Butterflies

Insects possess segmented bodies supported by an exoskeleton, a hard outer covering made mostly of chitin. The segments of the body are organized into three distinctive but interconnected units, or tagmata; a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The head supports a pair of sensory antennae, a pair of compound eyes, one to three simple eyes ("ocelli") and three sets of variously modified appendages that form the mouthparts. The thorax has six segmented legs (one pair each for the prothorax, mesothorax and the metathorax segments making up the thorax) and two or four wings (if present in the species). The abdomen (made up of eleven segments some of which may be reduced or fused) has most of the digestive, respiratory, excretory and reproductive internal structures.

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Butterfly on a daylily

Damselfly - Cleethorpes.

Tourbière Red Mill - Tourbière, Trois-Rivières, Québec - Canada

HFDF - Found this little 3mm long fly on the garden wall, 8 shot focus stack. Sony A6000 and Canon MP-E65..

About 3mm in length.

Insecto (Macro).

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Son reflet bleu métallisé est aussi spectaculaire que fugace. Il faut juste la bonne incidence pour l’apercevoir. Dés que le petit mars changeant se tourne un peu ou relève les ailes, la magie disparaît. Ce reflet bleu violet est le fait d’irisations dues au microrelief des écailles qui recouvrent ses ailes.

~~Chez certains insectes, les œufs et les larves doivent être déposés précisément sur leurs ressources alimentaires. La femelle est donc très sélective lors de la ponte.

Chez certaines, elles pondent les œufs de manière aléatoire sur le substrat. Chez d'autres, Elles les déposent en masse sur le feuillage ou les posent individuellement sur le plant. D'autres pondent à l'intérieur des racines, des tiges et à travers des troncs d'arbres à l'aide d'un organe spécialisé appelé ovipositeur.

Les mantes, les blattes et certains orthoptères pondent leurs œufs en masse dans une capsule protectrice appelée oothèque. Cette mousse de protéines forme une carapace solide assurant une protection contre d'éventuels prédateurs.

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Lake Katherine

Bristol

It is resting on a Yellowbell, a large Texas Native shrub. For Macro Mondays theme "Garden Macro". Many thanks to iofdi for the ID.

Swan Creek WMA

Episyrphus balteatus

A Tiger Longwing butterfly (Heliconius hecale) in the Butterfly and Orchid Pavilion of the Tucson Botanical Gardens

A vida é valor absoluto. Não existe vida menor ou maior, inferior ou superior. Engana-se quem mata ou subjuga um animal por julgá-lo um ser inferior. Diante da consciência que abriga a essência da vida, o crime é o mesmo.

(Olympia Salete)

Found in the San Gabriel Mountains. ID Anyone? I think this is some sort of blue but in it's tattered condition can't really tell what it is.