A meadow scorpionfly snacking on a dead caterpillar (peacock butterfly), next to (mayyyybe?) the cocoon of the parasite that killed the caterpillar.
Thank you!
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I'm not entirely sure of the subspecies. They are tiny, adorable, and really favor tansy.
Possibly "Colletes daviesanus". Tiny and cute.
Females do not, actually, have the orange tips on their wings, but the patterns on the underside are gorgeous.
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes). They're cute as heck so I'm gonna be stalking their foraging area.
It is!
Thank you so much!
Right?!
Thank you! A proper camera (R7) with a 85mm lens :) I know some people manage great macro with their phones, but I couldn't have gotten close enough with a phone, the bees hurried back into their tunnels whenever I got near.
Grey backed mining bee (Andrena vaga) waiting for me to get away from her nest.
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.
I love it too! I wish I had noticed it when the picture was taken, because it's gorgeous.
A birch catkin bug invited itself.
Bees are macro on hard mode, they never stop moving. You did a fantastic job. I always end up using burst mode and prayer. Have fun experimenting!
She looks like she's wearing a pollen crown!
The bees are the best. They get SO dusty. Also: can I see, please?
90% "that's amazing, I had no idea it looked so cool" and 10% "what is this ungodly abomination, let me unsee this" in my experience :)
I got myself extension tubes and it just happened to be THE season.
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 :)
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That, sir, is not a butt, but a blep. Gorgeous pic tho!