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Showing that abdomen for Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday - HBBBT!

Specifically, a short-horned grasshopper. In the Zilker Botanical Garden...

A bottle fly on a wedelia flower for Fly Day Friday - HFDF!

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

Sonoran bumblebee, I believe. These salvia flowers are good settings for bee shots these days...

Neoitamus angusticornis (Magari-ke mushihiki in Japanese)

Length 14 - 18 mm

No flash, single-shot, Olympus MFT gear

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As the gaura flowers fade, the stilt bugs move on. Don't remember what these are, but they're next to the gauras...

Aulacophora indica (urihamushi in Japanese)

Length 6.0 - 6.8 mm

No flash, single-shot, Olympus MFT gear

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I was looking around in the plants next to my wife's garden, seeking subjects for macro shots, when I came upon this insect coming out of these newly growing leaves. I got a couple shots off from differing depths of field, to give me a stack of two. All hand held, so I could only do so much! Not sure what it is, though.

Butterfly on a red salvia flower, Mayfield Nature Preserve, Austin Texas...

A pair hanging out in the hibiscus bud...

In Tulsa's Gathering Place - lots of these marsh dagger moth caterpillars along the "enter at your own risk" path...

Rear view of this guy In the hibiscus, who turned his back on me for Beautiful Bug Butt Thursday - HBBBT!

Nice to see something in the bush besides the usual flies and bees...

Lots of these little flies in the fields now, as other insect activity is on the wane - and Happy Fly Day Friday!

And a grown up caterpillar along the trail near Fredericksburg, Texas...

An Evergreen Bagworm that I photographed at Conowingo Dam in Maryland on 7/26/23.

One more look at this bumblebee on a showy thistle called Leavenworth's eryngo, in the Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center...

10x Objective

+Raynox DCR 250 reversed

This pretty little Anomalon wasp was easy to miss on the beautyberry leaf...very tiny...

Don't know what it is - a plant bug, I imagine, Hemiptera - but can't say. Very small, and kind of cute...

Canon 6D Mark II with 70-200mm f2.8l II.

Everglades National Park, Florida

"Their common name refers to a distinctive silver mark on the hindwing." Can't see it here, unfortunately.. Proboscis in the sand?

Geometer moth, I think. Quite a few of them around now...

In a primrose flower, in the field...

Seen at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center...

Armored leaf hopper at 3X magnification.

I believe this strange little Dipteran is a Nemotelus - my first and only sighting of this one. Happy Fly Day Friday!

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