O. bicornis, male. Bee hotel in the back yard.

Took me over an hour just to get one good shot, very quick creature

Tamron 90mm, natural light. 52 images stacked.

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A close-up shot of an insect in Bomassa, northern #Congo. Bomassa is the base camp for the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park (NNNP). The NNNP covers over 4,000km² of intact lowland rainforest in northern #Congo, harboring important populations of large mammals, including forest elephants, western lowland gorillas and chimpanzees.

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Photo stack (10 pictures), 4x magnification, macro

The blue-winged grasshopper female, Oedipoda caerulescens, is a grasshopper in the genus Oedipoda.

20 handheld images stacked, taking advantage of extreme level sync image stabilisation to try 840mm full frame equivalent in natural light. Shot at 7.23 AM, 17 September, 2023 Dhar kalan, Pathankot, Punjab

OM1-300f4-MC14

1/800, f5.6, ISO1250.

Minimal focussing distance around 1.3 meters with telelens is almost macro.

I went to the Quail Botanical Gardens today with Rob. Got a lot of awesome pics, which i'll put online soon. Here's one of the many shots I got of bees.

Componon-S 80mm, 99 images stacked.

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6x.

Edmund Optics 10X microscope lens, 250 images stacked.

I have never managed much success with bee macros. They just never seem to stay still long enough for me to phaff about ! Not ideal, I know, but this one might just be a keeper !

For My Flickr Friends....

Have A Nice Day and Take Care.

Celithemis eponina. A very attractive dragonfly, first time I've seen one.

This is the first I've encountered here. Photo of wings spread to follow.

Looking like a war machine (which it effectively is in the insect world) a robber fly. It actually has a small insect in its mouth.

Ist das eine Schnake?

maior

Flash Canon speedlite 430EX

Sur les bords de la rivière de la Pierre Saint Martin, les libellules sont abondantes. Certaines sont si gentiles à s'arreter quelque instant pour se faire prendre en photo (Cosinon 135 mm + bague de 24 mm)

At the border of the river at La Pierre Saint Martin (Pyrenés), there are lot of fireflies. Some of them are so kind to stop flying and to allow me taking a picture (Cosinon 135 mm + 24 mm tube).

Lounging millipede under a board, under my lens at this point.

As the evenings warm up, moths start to make their appearance.

lens: Canon 18-55 reverse

Anacridium aegyptium