Search results

....

Lasiocampa quercus - female Oak Eggar Moth

Tetragnatha extensa

I posted this in the Spiders thread which few seem to visit nowadays (no doubt due to the absence of Scott). This is a virtually uncropped (lengthwise) shot of a European garden spider - Araneus Diadematus - which has lost a couple of its legs.

I suppose all of us, as kids, amused ourselves by pulling legs off spiders, especially Daddylonglegs. However, since I've taken up macro-photography, I'm amazed at the number of spiders and insects I find that are missing legs. Six-legged Araneus diadematus - European Garden Spider Edit: As...

Came across a small group of Formica rufa - Red Wood Ant workers who were having a party as they "milked" aphids of their honeydew. A great time was had by all. :D

Colourful and well camouflaged little guy I found today.

I posted this on the Critique forum a couple of weeks ago with very little feedback (thank you mikew). So here is my little jig-dancing zebra spider.

Today's grasshoppers

Big ants out in force at the moment.

Okay, not just birds, but any creature you have photographed sitting on your hand. There is something totally amazing and humbling when a wild creature, which it would be so easy to kill, shows enough trust in you to sit on your hand while you take photos of it. These are, or should be...

This should originally have gone in the spiders thread but I put off posting it as I considered it one zebra spider shot too many. However, I just love this little creature and decided to get feedback from the non-arachnophile members. It was sitting on the door of my camper van, hence the...

Polistes dominula - European paper wasp

Anthidium florentinum - Carder Bee

Volucella bombylans - female hover fly

Amblyteles armatorius - parasitic wasp

Entry 1

Rutpela maculata

Oedemera nobilis male.