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I spotted this spider on the tip of a leaf, staring at an insect. The insect was engrossed in eating a smaller insect, and did not notice the spider approaching. In an instant, the spider had jumped on the insect and the eater was itself eaten.
I took a little time to check out some of the insects and spiders near the Honeysuckle this weekend.
Here's a bee (probably a male Andrena bee - Family Andrenidae G. Andrena) at 9x. You get a nice look at the big red jaws. The whole bee is only 6 or 7mm long. 10x Seiwa M Plan Apo on a Nikon 180mm ED. I'm finding that using more images in a stack than the numbers would seem to recommend actually does give you sharper images (especially for synthetic stereo shots). This one is 174 shots spanning a depth of a bit over a mm, I think. Paper towel over styrofoam cup diffusion. Snoot/shade on the lens (that really helps a lot).
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I spotted these beetles (?) making whoopee this noon at the garden.
Reader's Digest Great Encyclopaedic Dictionary defines "whoopee" as n. (orig. U.S. slang) Make ~, rejoice noisily or hilariously, have a good time.
Spending the day on a tree in my bro's yard; he texted me some shots, and I busted over there to get one of my own...
I'm pretty sure it's what this ladybug would say to all my wonderful flickr friends if it could speak. :-)
My son kindly helped my with this shot by holding a mirror behind the fly. It didn't turn out as good as I had hoped, but I owe it to him to put this up after all the work we did to get it!
C'est ce genre de découverte imprévue qui me conforte dans l'idée de toujours avoir avec moi mon matériel.