Seen in the garden.

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Cicadas scare the beejeezus out of me most of the time...but they're really cool to examine when dead!!

Découvert bien au chaud dans une écorce de pin mort

Dei sorte novamente, apareceu uma mosca aqui bem tranquila, pequena em torno de 3mm de comprimento e uns 2mm de altura. Ela esta tao tranquilo q me deixou fotografar usando ate flash de estudio. A foto foi feita com uma macro 100 mm e mais um lente invertida na frente.

Reflecting the blue sky, this bee was so sluggish I could spend use a very slow shutter speed.

small and Beautiful creature.....

I've been looking for a weevil and I found one today. And though I say it myself, it's one of the cutest beetles around. Very small! This one's at 4:1

Canon 100mm with extenders

considering I was about 4 inches away , he didn't seem to mind,

Wasp captured when it was thawing after the winter on the sun

The praying mantis was so intent on me that it missed prey on the next petal. When the insect flew past it, it kept looking in the direction the prey escaped to.

bee on the wall

Taken with tamron 90mm handheld

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Dati Exif

Fotocamera Canon PowerShot SX20 IS

Esposizione 0,001 sec (1/1250)

Aperture f/3.2

Lente 5 mm

ISO 80

Exposure Bias -1/3 EV

Flash Off, Did not fire

These are just some of the varieties of hoverfly I've had in my back garden this year. Always a pleasure to see them.

Typically, I will kill several trout each year because Donna's recipe for sauteeing them is to die for. I normally will bring them home to clean so I can inventory and photograph their stomach content.

Going through my I-Photo album on insects, I ran across some photos I took last spring of the contents from one I caught next to Parkview Bridge. This (18") trout's stomach was stretched TIGHT with these PMD (Ephemerellidae) nymphs and NOTHING else.

Side Note:

The photograph's note shows a mayfly that was captured just as it was breaking out of its shuck. This last weekend I attended a Fly Fishing show in Pleasanton Ca. where I saw an artificial that resembled this stage perfectly. Ed Engle, (a new mentor of mine) ties a pheasant tail nymph with a little ball of yellow yarn (so he can see it) just behind the hooks eye. He fishes this wet fly nymph pattern just like a dry fly but just under the surface. I just bet this pattern would be dynamite here on the Upper Sac.

My flybox will soon be fully stocked with these puppies.

Some species of tiger moths mimic wasps

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