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A moth on the lamp post

I can't remember the name of this beastie, but it looks like something from 'Aliens.' I've tried a number of times, but it is hard to get a good shot being so reflective and basically transparent

This fly kept up a constant high frequency vibration, so I just tried to get its eye in focus

A little bee have a clean up before the next flower

Forgot to post this last night

This picture is upside down, as the guy was hanging from the ceiling of the office porch. I had a heck of a time trying to squeeze in close enough

Cottony cushion scale -- not my favorite thing to find on a plant

Hurry up, B&H! Hurry up!

More like this?

So here lies the great conundrum I always have, a good bad picture and what to do to fix it. I have a stack of degrees in fine arts and the core point of all those hours in class was learning how to see. Technique is easy; knowing what you actually see and what you want seen is hard. While I...

You know it's time to give it a rest when the flies start sticking their tongues out at you

Brilliant green eyes on this spider, but tucked too far back in the westringia to get a good angle, so this has to do

Everyone has come out to play today. I kept seeing this guy, a wasp fly (Dioprosopa clavata) all morning, but it wouldn't settle long enough for a shot -- patience rewarded

At viewing normal size, they are close to identical; enlarged, you can see degradation and color shifting in the auto resized one. Probably not a concern in normal circumstances auto manual

I know I've taken assassins before, but this guy zipped around my head half a dozen times then landed right in front of me, so I felt obliged to take a pic

A tiny bee on the milkweed. A second later a regular honey bee dropped in for a nice size contrast