insecte sur fleur

Schattenriss am Kiesteich

Blue Damselfly, male (Enallagma cyathigerum)

Gemeine Becherjungfer, männl.

Taken in Dorset

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Just down from the holiday apartment I was staying in Schierke, is a healthy set of bright yellow Coreopsis and the Butterflies and Bees love them. This Bee was particularly agile which presented quite the challenge with eh Raynox to get this little guy into focus, the constant moving around was tricky. So I shot off quite a few admittedly a spray and pray affair but managed t get two or three in pretty good focus.

Here's to another weekend ahead and I hope everyone has a good one, so always thank you! :)

A butterfly and wildflowers.

... found this little fellow underneith my heating, totally dehydrated so it seems ... when I put him outside he didn't stop drinking for quite some time ...

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My first sighting of this rare bee.

Just sitting in the car after taking the Pink Flannel Flowers, when a bee landed on the car dashboard.

Meyer-Optik Diaplan 2.8/100

Insect macro

not my usual shot especially with a long lens

Babočka admirál

Vanessa atalanta, Atalanta, Admiral, Red Admiral, Numerada, Vulcain, Ljepokrili admiral, La Vulcano, Admirolas, Atalanta-lepke, Rusałka admirał, Babôčka admirálska, Amiraali

Lokalita: Jedovnice, CZ

Greece, Rhodes, near Faliraki

Interestingly, this sp, is not listed from the Dodekánisos or Greece in Fauna Europaea.

in action

taken with a tamron 90mm f2.8 macro

Fly macro

Taken with a tamron 60mm f2 macro

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I am mystified why I keep finding ladybugs crawling on the wet beach near the water. Sometimes it's during extremely windy conditions where I think they are unable to fly to a safer location. I've picked up many and carried them cupped in my hands to some vegetation. Other times, it's a calm day and I can't understand why they are crawling on the beach. That was the case for the one pictured here and I left him/her alone after getting a few pictures. I had to use one arm to block Tidda from obliviously stepping on him/her!

A backlit green long-legged fly in the garden, for Macro Mondays...

From my garden

Taken with a Tamron 60mm f2 macro