Fotografía macro de un insecto de la familia Cicadellidae tomada en Medellín, Colombia

Lugar (Taken in): Medellín, Colombia

© Wilmer Quiceno

EOS 70D + Venus 60mm (macro)

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Big bees and tiny bees (and some flies) like these flowers, which are only open for a little while during the day...

Riding the tip of a yucca leaf...

Feeding on nectar from three-horned stock (Matthiola tricuspidata) growing on the edge of a sandy beach in Rethymno, Crete.

believed to be immature plant bug from genus Neurocolpus

A long way from home

For days I'd seen these little bugs, like mini crane flies, hanging around the gaura flowers. (At times it actually looked like an orgy.) With this photo I think I can identify them as stilt bugs, Jalysus sp., family Berytidae. According to bugguide.net, they're "found on flowers and other vegetation"...

Insecto (Macro)

Photographed in Spain.

High Brown Fritillary - Argynnis adippe

This large, powerful butterfly is usually seen flying swiftly over the tops of bracken or low vegetation in woodland clearings. In flight, the males are almost impossible to separate from those of the Dark Green Fritillary, which often share the same habitats. However, both species frequently visit flowers such as thistles and Bramble where it is possible to see their distinctive underside wing markings. The Dark Green lacks the orange ringed 'pearls' on the underside of the hindwing.

The High Brown Fritillary was once widespread in England and Wales but since the 1950s has undergone a dramatic decline. It is now reduced to around 50 sites where conservationists are working to save it from extinction.

Size and Family

Family: Fritillaries

Size: Large

Wing Span Range (male to female): 60-67mm

Conservation status

Section 41 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in England

Section 42 species of principal importance under the NERC Act in Wales

UK BAP: Priority Species

Butterfly Conservation priority: High

European status: Not threatened

Fully protected in Great Britain under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act

Caterpillar Foodplants

Common Dog-violet (Viola riviniana) is used in all habitats, but Hairy Violet (V. hirta) is also used in limestone areas. It may occasionally use Heath Dog-violet (V. canina) and Pale Dog-violet (V. lactea).

Neoempheria sp. flies, with this common name...

Literally this one seems to have it's 'leg over' HIHD have a fun day ;0)

One of my first encounters with this beautiful creature in Germany.

Apprehensive bug

Tutkarz bachusek

An eight-spotted scoliid wasp, working a flower on the trail near Fredericksburg, Texas...

I just love these eyes...

Insect Macro

Meadow brown I think

We spotted this spotted beetle wandering a passionflower. In Tulsa we walked The Gathering Place and the Botanic Garden - both had LOTS of these pretty little pests...

Yes, this is probably one of the strangest things I've decided to photograph. A dead fly.

Eastern carpenter finds a cozy spot on the back of a nasturtium petal.

So I photo chatted for a while with a green shield bug... 😄

Durant, OK

The elbowbush shrubs in the fields and along the trails have been great places to hunt in the last week or so...

Second of these I've seen in the last few days...always glad to see one...

Looks like a Celia's roadside skipper. These mystic spire salvia flowers are very attractive, it seems...

Suddenly I'm seeing these very young (or very small!) grasshoppers around the house - this one was sitting on a mistflower leaf...