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La Cétoine dorée est un insecte coléoptère de la famille des Cetoniidae. Elle est commune en Europe.
L'adulte (ou imago) se rencontre d'avril à octobre mais surtout de juin à août.
Il mange les étamines des fleurs pour leur pollen (ce qui constitue une castration des étamines). Il peut également consommer des fruits mûrs sur les sureaux, les rosiers, les troènes ou les spirées.
Il mesure entre 13 et 20 mm.
walking in a park and I saw this ant swarm - was almost circular and about 15 centimeters across. Took several hand held macros - this was the best one. Wish I had brought the tripod.
Best seen Large. Didn't notice the rain drop on the noggin until later! Kirkby Gravel Pits, Lincolnshire, UK.
Those "aphids" tended by ants that I couldn't quite identify? Turns out they are not aphids at all, but keeled treehopper nymphs! Here are a couple of adult keeled treehoppers from the same area. The nymphs are apparently also a source of yummy nectar for ants... I didn't get it quite right at first, but that's science!
As bees their sting ,
so the promiscuous leave behind
them in each encounter
something of themselves
by which they are made to suffer.......
Cyril Connolly......................
Polygonia c-album
Comma
C-Falter
Shot with a Canon M50 and the Canon EF 70-300mm IS II USM f4-5.6 @ 300mm f7.1
The beginnings of a wasp's hive. The queen has constructed several cells and has laid an egg and added nectar to many of them. In about six weeks new workers will emerge and continue her work while she attends the hive.
"Carpenter Ants build nests inside wood consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles, preferably in dead, damp wood. However, unlike termites, they do not consume wood, discarding a material that resembles sawdust. Sometimes, carpenter ants hollow out sections of trees. They also commonly infest wooden buildings and structures, and are a widespread nuisance and major cause of structural damage. Nevertheless, their ability to excavate wood helps in forest decomposition. The genus includes over 1,000 species. They also farm aphids. In the farming, the ants protect the aphids while they excrete a sugary fluid called honeydew, which the ants get by stroking the aphids with their antennae."
Macro May day23
I brought in some tiny tea roses and was going to photograph the light through the apricot colored petals. When I began to focus through the view finder I see this little fella appear, skirting the edges of the petal!
Macro photography can lend itself to wonderful surprises you might not otherwise know was there!
Leafhopper is a common name applied to any species from the family Cicadellidae. Leafhoppers, colloquially known as "hoppers", are minute plant-feeding insects in the superfamily Membracoidea in the order Hemiptera. They belong to a lineage traditionally treated as infraorder Cicadomorpha in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, but as the latter taxon is probably not monophyletic many modern authors prefer to abolish the Auchenorrhyncha and elevate the cicadomorphs to a suborder Clypeorrhyncha.
Leafhoppers are found all over the world and constitute is the second-largest family in the Hemiptera. They have at least 20,000 described species. The tribe Proconiini of the subfamily Cicadellinae is commonly known as sharpshooters.
best viewed LARGE:
18 stacked images using Photoshop CC. Reverse mounted Nikon 24mm f/2.8 no extension tubes. Dual Nikon SB-R200 flash heads. Insect size about 1 cm.