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On a mistflower, false dragonheads in the background...

A bee clinging to a coleus flower early morning waiting for the sun to warm it up.

Insecto (Macro)

A little pretty Metallic Green Sweat Bee cleaning its antenna in my Maryland garden on 7/10/22.

Taking advantage of the warmish weather, flowers, and butterfly activity - not gonna last much longer...

This might be the first time I've managed to catch both top and bottom of these beautiful wings in the same shot...

I prefer natural settings for bug shots, but this Polistes on a hummingbird feeder was too good to pass up...

Seems like every time I go out in the garden now I find one of these little guys...

Lots of these in the purple basil in the Tulsa Botanic Garden...

A nighttime shot, the mantis eating a fuzzy moth and making a real mess of it.

This mantis showed up in considerably worse condition than I last saw it (I think it's the same mantis, at least), with a damaged and blackened mouth and curled and broken antennae. It still was quite the menace in our patio planters, though. It had prey in its grasp more often than not when I spied it.

Another fly for FDF - HFDF!

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Bee on Hebe blossom

One more of these, nestled in a hardy hibiscus leaf...

A shiny green bee butt for Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday - HBBBT!

Working the remaining mistflowers in the garden...

Insecto (Macro)

Montezuma's grasshopper, specifically...

Aptenia, I think...

A large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus fasciatus, captured in the milkweed, of course...

Could be a dun skipper - not sure. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center...

Working on breakfast, looks like...

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Hoverflies mating mid-air

One more for Fly Day Friday - HFDF!

Resting on a purple Tradescantia leaf...and Happy Fly Day Friday!

A geron bee fly, spotted on the trail, for Fly Day Friday - HFDF!

In the New Orleans Botanical Gardens...

At the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. On a dewberry flower, I think...

In our lantana bush...

Not the best with a smartphone under bright sun for a shot.

But came out acceptable with some degree of details.

Female found this evening

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In the garden. A tiny Microtechnites bractatus with a fairly attractive butt, I think - HBBBT!

We came face to face in the gardens at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center...

Ant-mimic jumping spider, specifically, and a pretty good mimic. I managed to catch this one just before it went over the edge...

Genus Tenthredo, I think, in the poison hemlock...

A closer look, from another angle. It didn't seem to mind as I moved around and closed in - a most cooperative subject...