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My FIRST decent macro with my new camera......I'm still striving for better as I know it can!

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

"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

Fascinating patterns in the wing of this moth

garden spider and prey

Here's the full image of the ant in the previous picture. It has lost a segment of its hind leg.

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.

size 2.5mm

ladybird

At least I think its a horsefly. If someone can tell me the proper name I'd like to update the title.

It was shot handheld with my D80 using the Nikon 105mm macro lens and SB-600 flash in aperture priority mode with an aperture of f/29 at ISO100.

Found it creeping through our shingle path.

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.

Moine Cantharis rustique

Cantharis Rustica

Au mois de mai, ces jolis coléoptères pullulent dans l'herbe... il ne reste plus qu'à s'allonger et tenter une prise de vue...

Processed with VSCOcam with se3 preset; Reduced noise in Lightroom 4

deze hoornaar zat op onze schutting het hout er van af te eten

dit doet hij om een nest te bouwen,,we hoorden hem gewoon schuren raar gehoor

motyl

Having never come across one of these wasps, I had no idea what it's name was - hope i've identified it correctly !

Myathropa florea

At first I thought that this thing was a looking comma egg of some critters but suddenly it moved on. No idea about who is it