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Just a side view shot of the "cold Miner Bee" after being disturbed by my flash and running off along the ground
I think, this one is the ugliest photograph I am sharing with you guys... Please excuse me for that :-)
Out in the garden, more bees on my lavender. Even in the rain the work has to be done.
Busy, busy, busy. I understand them.
I have to admit that I captured this hoverfly in a glass and took it up to the kitchen to photograph. It flew all over the room so I had to photograph it wherever it chose to land - in this case on a pair of oven gloves.
After the photo session I let it back outside again.
Canon 5D, MPE-65mm, ST-E2, 430 EX, Milk-carton softbox
f/16, 1/200 sec, ISO 200
i raised these from caterpillars. after their photo session, they were off to find mates!
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"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eyes level with her smallest leaf, and take an insects view of its plain. " ~ Thoreau
Penny for scale.
Update: almost certainly a Spider Beetle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_beetle (thanks, Steve's father-in-law)
Insects are its color is shiny like this, I just raise the contras was just a little and my image for more detailed pruning no more than that
My lucky day, came across this scary fierce looking fellow and i approached it with caution. It flew away and return to the same spot. This happened at least 3 times before it decided that to fly away.
The eyes are almost transparent and the green and black spots are actually inside it.
Nikon D200 Micro-Nikkor 55mm 1:3.5 + TC-200 Teleconverter
1/250 sec - f/16 - ISO 400
SB-600 Speedlight on-camera with diffuser
A mysterious clover weevil reflects on meaning and identity in the emptiness of space... or does it just sit there and wonder whats going on? Maybe thats the same thing. Maybe I need some more coffee.
Ants and aphids have a well known symbiotic relationship. Here some aphids are feeding on a part of a grevillea flower. The ants "milk" the aphics for honeydew which drips from their anal canal.
A small drop of honeydew is visible in the ant's jaws, and this ant is actually milking the aphid on the right by rubbing the aphid with its antenna.
Sagra femorata purpurea Lichtenstein, 1795
(Family Chrysomelidae, Order Coleoptera)
Tricolor Big-legged Tortoise Beetle is a shoot or culm boring beetle feeding mainly on the rattan Pueraria lobata, commonly known as kudza. The adults have at least three different color shades which are metallic greenish-blue or blue, green or golden green, purplish red or red. Antennae reach to about the middle of the elytra. Thorax is elongate, generally longer than other related species, about one-fourth longer than the anterior width. Male, with the hind femora of the legs elongate, the apex bidentate; apex of tibiae bidentate, the outer tooth is large. The large hind legs make the beetle moving slowly than it for jumping. Female is relatively smaller and hind femora are smaller than that of the male. Body length is about 10-22 mm.
Reference:
hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pi/pdf/20(2)-191.pdf