#BugPhotography

2025-04-20
Mit seinem pelzigen Körper und dem langen Saugrüssel erinnert der Große Wollschweber eher an eine Mischung aus Hummel und Kolibri. Trotz seines friedlichen Auftretens legt er seine Eier in die Nester von Wildbienen, wo seine Larven sich von deren Vorräten ernähren.

#Makrofotografie #Makro #Insektenfotografie #GroßerWollschweber #BombyliusMajor #Wollschweber #Schweber #Insekten #Pentax #PentaxK3iii #PentaxK3Mkiii #Makroliebe #Makrowelt #Naturfotografie #BugPhotography #ExtremeMacro #CloseUp #HoverFly #NatureDetails #Frühling
2025-03-11

Another macro bug - with a very small depth of field, because it was moving around too much for me to close the aperture more (which would mean I'd need a slower shutter speed, creating motion blur).
This is a beetle in the genus Ellychnia, which is actually a kind of firefly - but since they're diurnal instead of nocturnal, they don't glow like other fireflies. I think they still look pretty unique though!

A beetle with red stripes on its body, on a wooden railing with lots of background and foreground blurA beetle with red stripes on its body, on a wooden railing with lots of background and foreground blurCropped close up view showing detail of head and antennaeCropped close up view showing detail of head and antennae
2025-03-09

Flat backed millipede and springtail in Stanley Park!
Catching the millipede while it was sitting still was probably the most difficult part of this - it kept running around and making my photos blurry.

An orange millipede with visible segments segments and a non-trivial number of legs, crawling through a crack in a wet piece of wood.A very small orange and brown bug with a round body, long antennae, and small black eyes standing on a white part of a wet log.The millipede again, showing off its bendy antennae and eyeless headcropped close up view of the springtail, showing off its very round body and alien shaped head
2023-10-25

Wore my grippy water shoes up on the roof to blow off leaves and clear the drain channels.

Satisfying to see the filter holes on the gutter covers re-emerge. And to return to the ground not as a ladder-accident statistic.

Ready for more #rain
#NevadaCountyCA #CAwx #CAinsects #insects #bugphotography #naturephotography

Meanwhile, the female #mantis I discovered last night is still hanging out by the garage door.

Photo of a praying mantis with spiny, spindly legs; spindly neck; tiny triangular head; and a large, tear-shaped abdomen. It is clinging to painted wood siding.
Tristontristonli
2023-09-15

Just an awesome pic of a pill bug I was able to capture last night!

More pictures at: inaturalist.org/observations/1

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