Macro Photography

[Lisbeth]

Sis, they are all taken either on our property, a designated Conservation Easement of 10 acres, or within 2 miles where there is a wildlife/hiking preserve.

Sounds like a wonderful place where to live

Bees and flowers
Extraordinary colours

The UFO is a strange one Those funny hindlegs I cannot see the waist.

[Richprins]

Astounding pics, Ex!

Bees are so important!

The antennae on the last one suggest wasp to me?

[Lisbeth]

It could also be a hornet

[nan]

wow ExFmem what an array of bugs etc... macros photos,
all better than each others

very interesting

[ExFmem]

Thanks for the comments all.

Correct-o-mundo RP

This turns out to be a wasp - ID by BugGuide
Family Chalcididae (Chalcidid Wasps)
Subfamily Chalcidinae
Genus Conura



These are parasitoid wasps which lay eggs on other insects. They most often attack pupae of moths, butterflies (Lepidoptera), and flies (Diptera), but occasionally sawflies, wasps, bees, ants (Hymenoptera), and beetles (Coleoptera). Females lay up to 200 eggs. These eggs are deposited into fully grown hosts, like mature larvae, or young pupae. Eggs pupate and feed and grow inside the host pupa. Most chalcid wasps then overwinter as adult females or as mature larvae in the host organism.

https://eol.org/pages/735/articles

[ExFmem]

Bring on the flies...

[ExFmem]

TGIF

[Richprins]

Beautiful pics on a revolting subject, Ex!

Similar to the SA flies!

[Lisbeth]

They are rather ugly, apart from the furred ones, but become amazing photographs

[ExFmem]

Dragonflies are colorful, whimsical, and seemingly playful, but hidden behind this charismatic insect lies one of nature’s most successful apex predators. While hunting prey, dragonflies have a catch rate of 95%, higher than any other animal observed. The secret to their success lies in the many unique adaptations they have accumulated throughout their evolution, including aspects of their eyesight and flight (they can fly at speeds up to 34 mph, and can hover in mid-air, fly right, left, up, down, forwards, and even backwards). However, their journey as predators begins well before their aerial emergence at the bottom of our streams. It is here where the dragonfly spends most of its life in its larval, or nymph stage and its predation begins.

























They are really quite fascinating insects!

https://wctrust.org/dragonflies-natures ... -predator/
https://www.tarawildlife.com/10-astound ... dragonfly/