A meadow scorpionfly snacking on a dead caterpillar (peacock butterfly), next to (mayyyybe?) the cocoon of the parasite that killed the caterpillar.
Females do not, actually, have the orange tips on their wings, but the patterns on the underside are gorgeous.
Grey backed mining bee (Andrena vaga) waiting for me to get away from her nest.
Herons look so incredibly cool. Until you see them from the front, of course. Gorgeous shot!
You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.
Why settle when I could get a 800mm 5.6 for a mere 14k?
The only reason I didn't impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don't even have bald eagles around here.
I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!
It's based on a template, I made it for the Afternoon Tea pixel club: https://lostletters.neocities.org/afternoontea/ which you should check out :)
Thanks! He's so puffy, I figured he was cold.
Gorgeous photograph. How cold was it outside that day?
Such a beautiful bird
Amazing scene! That must have been great to watch. Less so to hear!
A handsome boi!
It seemed to be doing fine as far as "racing over plants and climbing from leaf to leaf" was concerned.
Old World swallowtail
Hi! Sorry, very new at the whole "bugs" thing, and I'm still learning. I spotted this the other day (not sure of the stink bug species, possibly Nezara viridula), promptly spent hours watching macro timelapses of stink bugs hatching, going from gooey babies to hard shelled nymphs...
Now to the question which has been bugging me: is there such a thing as "too late to hatch"? Can they "harden" inside the egg and just die there (maybe in the blackened eggs)?
Thanks!
I found another nest of the same species and took it home. So: have a top view of the hatched eggs and some first instar nymphs while I'm at it!
Some kind of stink bug. No precise ID since the identification apps say the nymphs are a species that does not match the eggs at all.
Edit: Nezara viridula
Oh wow, gorgeous bird!