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.
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.
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!
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.
She goes into the Hell Bag for roughly 15 minutes a month, the time it takes to get her monthly Old Kitty Medicine (which comes as a jab).
She earned the Hell Bag (aka bathing bag) after requiring sedation and injuring her Human during the first home visit from the vet. Totally unrelated, but her teeth are in remarkably good, pointy, stabby condition for a 14 year old cat.
Trying out my new camera and lens. I didn't expect getting such good results with no practice on the R7, but it does 99% of the job.
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.