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Bug Watch - Invertebrate images.

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Post your pictures of Invertebrates here!

This is a general topic for everyone to post their images of Invertebrates. It doesn't matter where you took them. If you have identified the critter, please add the name to your posting, if not, post them to the Insect or Invertebrates Identification as well.
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I'll start the ball rolling with some pictures from my garden.

The cool and dry weather has lasted well onto October this year with the result that none of my daisy bushes have shown any sign of blooming. These are my best source of insects and seem to attract a huge variety of them.

Meanwhile, I have spotted a couple of interesting Dragonflies.

This exquisite creature is a Blue Emperor Dragonfly and it posed beautifully for me. I've not seen this species in my garden before.

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A couple of weeks later I spotted it (or its twin) flying over my swimming pool.

15 minutes of following it with a my camera, waiting for it to hover for a couple of seconds so I could zero in and focus, netted two pictures. One was out of focus and the other was this one :-

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Meanwhile, a fairly regular visitor, a Red-Veined Dropwing Dragonfly was on a bush nearby.

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these were taken in Switzerland and I have no idea of what kind of dragonfly they are 0*\

I think that they are mating

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A different one

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Very nice Lis! The pair are mating \O


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Pair of Beautiful Demoiselle (Calopteryx virgo) ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^

Stunning captures of the Blue Emperor, BluTuna O:V O:V O:V


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Here are some from our trip to the KNP in September.

Paper Wasp Belonogaster sp.

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Some Ichneumonidae Wasps.

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A Female Sprite.

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And an Maid Alice Moth Amata alicia.

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A female Hermit Spider Nephilengys cruentata from Tembe :-)

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A beaut! Another one for the Info book!

^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^ ^Q^


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