I spotted this tiny butterfly in my garden the other day. It was less than 1 inch but as it didn't open it's wings, so I am not sure if it had blue inside.

My arthritis is still giving me grief. The pain is unbearable at times - hopefully the specialist will be able to offer some help when I see him on Tuesday.

found on the lawn

It has been a surprising late Summer in September...I enjoyed having a walk around the city to see so many beautiful plants like these leaves all green.

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Beauty is easy to find, just step outside! Wear socks over your shoes so that you can walk across the skating rink that used to be a patio. The grass has crystallized, and crunches loudly in the stillness. The old maple tree is wearing a tiny little world, with icy rivulets and green moss throughout the ridges and valleys. The inhabitants are sleeping now, buried beneath the frozen layers…dreaming of a time of warmth and renewal. The dangerous journey from home to the frosty winter wonderland will be worth it, though! Just don’t forget your socks….

counted 5 chicks, so mom and dad were busy through the marsh collecting food for the tiny fledglings....Virginia rail

So lucky to have seen the smallest of our Coppers again this year.

This northern species is an obligate dweller of acidic bogs and wet sedge meadows with wild cranberries.

The entire life cycle of the Bog Copper depends on wild cranberries (in this location Small Cranberry/Vaccinium oxycoccos). The tiny white blooms provide nectar for the adults, females lay their eggs on the undersides of the tiny leaves and the larvae feed on the shoots and leaves.

As with other small butterflies, there is only one brood per year and the lifespan of the adults is rather short. They spend most of their life in other forms with eggs surviving ice and periodic inundation submerged in freezing water and the larvae feeding on the cranberry leaves the following spring. The adults emerge in early July and may fly for two to three weeks.

Freshly emerged males have beautiful purplish sheen on top of their wings. This individual is perched on a blackberry bloom. (see my other shots in this series)

Bog Copper -male- (Tharsalea epixanthe) Sullivan County, Pennsylvania

This little one was camera shy and kept running away from me.

I liked how the ground moss served to show the scale of these really tiny mushrooms. I don't often use my 100mm anymore, as the auto-focus doesn't work, but I had to get it out to capture these up close and personal... :)

Confess: I failed to take nice street shots today :-(

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Can't ID this one, but I'm pretty sure it's a wasp. More action on the mistflowers...

These tiny Tree frogs make a big sound for such a tiny creature, including in our garden . Its no wonder I hear them more than see them :-)

these tiny little plants just fascinate me. the way the light

illuminated them was magical.

Today we'll shrink our scale from the very large to the tiny, and you get to learn something about plants here for a change. On Sunday while out on a short trip to Georgia with My dad, I was photographing the detail of the involucre of this flower when I noticed a spot on it. The detail was for an iNaturalist observation of the flower, and with daisy-like flowers, this detail is often necessary to distinguish one species from another. The involucre is the structure made up of those green leaf-like phyllaries under a daisy-like flower. As for the spider, these tiny weavers are difficult to ID to species, so I can't say much about him other than that they are very small, and he's a male.

4 Arachtober 2022

Sheetweb or Dwarf Weaver, Family Linyphiidae

on Maryland Golden Aster, Chrysopsis mariana

Cloudland Canyon West Rim, Rising Fawn, GA

2 October 2022

It has been raining A LOT this year !! But, still, some lovely sunshine appears some times, giving me a strong will to sort in the garden, and take some pictures of the tiny enchanting Spring new comers, and ……their friends…

(This lovely one is a Hamamelis Arnold's Promise )

It's not too often you get this close to a Least Tern!

Study of tiny flower found on way to office.

There is a small farm on the start of our usual route into the Forest. They graze their Shetlands and miniature horses on a nearby common, but when their mares go into foal they take them in. There were two Shetlands in their nearby field both with new foals but this was the smallest. It was difficult to take a picture, as the mare was on the other side of the field but I wanted to share to show you just how tiny it was. Smaller than a labrador

Macro Mondays 'EDC' (Everyday Carry) theme.

I don't take much with me on a regular basis but one thing that is always with me is this tiny led torch on my keyring. It's small but still a bright light when needed (I even used it to light Tasku for a photo on one occasion), and it's rechargeable.

The image measures a little under 2" in width.

Tiny fly (~2mm)

Every species has its own a unique wing-structure

Mitutoyo 10x NA 0.28, tube lens: Raynox 125mm

Illumination: Oblique and dark field

This Ant was so small I took about a dozen photos before I got one in focus. Plus it was a bit windy to. This tiny guy was on the inner part of a Euphorbia.

15 0f 50 of my on going series of photography from home.(Lock down edition).

A tiny chervil wildflower, blooming in...

Trailhead Park of the East Decatur Greenway

Decatur (Winnona Park), Georgia, USA.

10 April 2025.

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☞ Can a fellow Flickr-er identify exactly which species of chervil this is? Southern chervil (Chaerophyllum tainturieri), perhaps?

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Tiny mushroom

Tamron SP AF 180mm F3.5 Di LD Macro

Just playing around :)

inside a gilled mushroom... if you're a tiny springtail that is.

Tiny backyard made for @newelementary competition “Construction Constructions”. Pleasure to get runner up prize. Construction parts used: 2x 18943 Technic Digger Bucket 5 x 7 x 4 1/2 Clamshell with Pin Hole and Axle Hole, 1x 43903 LegoTread with 20 Treads Small, 17x 4006 Minifigure, Utensil Tool Spanner Wrench / Screwdriver, 3x 64450 Windscreen 6 x 4 x 3 1/3 Roll Cage, 3873 LegoTechnic, Link Tread, 57518 Technic, Link Tread Wide with 2 Pin Holes. FIND THEM ALL 😃

I am so glad that I took the chance to go and visit these :o)

I haven't been there for five years during the blooming of the scilla siberica.

This little Carolina wren weighted less than 1 oz; but she sang so loud that we can hear from far away. Indeed, she is tiny but mighty.

A tiny Wolf Spider that I photographed at Blackwater Wildlife Refuge in Maryland.

Festive Coquette - Female - one of the smallest hummingbirds in Brazil. Tiny hummingbird with a white rump band found in the Atlantic Rainforest region. Adult male has a fantastic iridescent green headdress consisting of a flowing beard ending in white spots, and a glittering face and forehead. Female and young male lack these features and have a white throat with a dark smudge in the center; they are similar to female Frilled Coquette, but lack buff on the face and throat. Feeds on a wide variety of flowers at almost any level, and regularly visits feeders in some areas. The nest and eggs of this species have been described, but overall its reproduction has been poorly studied.

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Typical house in the region where I live.

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Arachtober 9

I'm not sure if this exceptionally tiny spider is a spiderling - possibly an orb weaver? Or an adult orb weaver, or a separate species altogether. It ballooned in whilst I was observing a crab spider.

I'll place it in my Araneidae album for now - any ID advice very welcome.

I estimate no bigger than 3 mm in length.

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This was attempt N°1 for my photo of the day. Then I remembered that I'd already taken raindrops this month, so went back to the drawing-board.

Much better viewed large.

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Pea on the eyelet of a needle.

Sigma 105mm Macro lens with 12mm ext. tube.

Noticed this tiny wildflower on a brief walk. Less than a millimeter in diameter.

OK I think it's probably a storage shed, but it's cute, isn't it?

And it could be a tiny house, since the size of a tiny house is considered to be 100-400 square feet. 100 feet, the size of a small bedroom......

The heathers in the forest are already in full bloom. Very early in this year...

Wrzosy w lesie już są w pełni kwitnienia. Jakoś tak szybko w tym roku zakwitły...

At 600mm and such a high iso (2000), and handheld, I'm surprised this shot came out at all.

A small wildflower found growing next to a log in the back yard. The flower was roughly a half inch across.

Tiny but Mighty - A good way to describe the personality of the Chestnut-backed Chickadee. A fun bird that I see a lot of but rarely get great photos of. This one was posing up close and I couldn't resist.

Species: Chesnut-backed Chickadee (Poecile rufescens)

Location: Santa Clara County, CA, USA

Equipment: Canon EOS R7 + RF 100-500mm

Settings: 1/400s, ISO: 1000, f/7.1 @800mm EFL, Handheld, Electronic Shutter

on Grevillea Moonlight foliage that I cut for a vase.