Get buggin!!!

[Joel]

Sorry small photo.

[Lyle A]

Great shots. The fly is really close. I can't do that with my camera. Here's a common house spider.

[microcosmos]

Nice shots people
Here some of new macro pics.

Hopper on a flower.


Some caterpillars.


Ants taking care of some sweet aphids


waiting c&c

Yannis microcosmos

[Lyle A]

Awesome Yannis. Those are very interesting. Here's a hungry Jumper with a moth.

[loeee]

The caterpillars (Yannis) and the hungry spider (Lyle) kind of give me shivers, but they're all cool pics from both of you.

Looking at the ants and aphids made me forget how much I actually hate both of them! LOL (I have aphids on my plants and ants in my kitchen at the moment.)

[Lyle A]

Unfortunately the lighting on that spider is too hot. Jumpers are the most loveable and least dangerous of all spiders. They are great hunters and won't bite humans.

[loeee]

Originally Posted by Lyle A

Unfortunately the lighting on that spider is too hot. Jumpers are the most loveable and least dangerous of all spiders. They are great hunters and won't bite humans.

I'm not actually afraid of spiders, but I feel sorry for the moth. Watching insects feed on each other kind of grosses me out. There is one type that I see in my garden from time to time that is furry, has a flat, red back and black and white striped legs that I would dearly like to be able to photograph. They do jump, though, and they are rather small. Maybe when I finally get a macro lens I will try for one of those.

I am afraid of black widows, and if I uncover one in the garden I generally squash it with a big rock or whatever is at hand.

[microcosmos]

Originally Posted by loeee

The caterpillars (Yannis) and the hungry spider (Lyle) kind of give me shivers, but they're all cool pics from both of you.

Looking at the ants and aphids made me forget how much I actually hate both of them! LOL (I have aphids on my plants and ants in my kitchen at the moment.)

Thanks for the comment.
Well it is the only case that ants and aphids working together in harmony, (the aphids feeding some sweet nectar the ants, and the last protect the herd from other predators) so they leaving the humans alone .

[microcosmos]

Originally Posted by Lyle A

Awesome Yannis. Those are very interesting. Here's a hungry Jumper with a moth.

Thanks Lyle.
Pretty small spider for this size moth hey?
I have some similar shots.
Here are some.

A crab spider with a poor bee.


The left one is crab spider with an ant and the right one is a jumping spider with a fly-head.Talking about 2 top hunters on a single leaf.

Enjoy cruel but balanced nature.

[Lyle A]

More great shots. That's a real opportunity to get shots like that. Here's some kind of I don't know what. Keep those good shots comin'

[kenwae]

Posted a similar shot in the macro section but saw this thread and so here is another one from the same series....

[Lyle A]

Cool shot. I love the Mantis. Here's one posing for me. This one flys.

[loeee]

Originally Posted by microcosmos

Thanks for the comment.
Well it is the only case that ants and aphids working together in harmony, (the aphids feeding some sweet nectar the ants, and the last protect the herd from other predators) so they leaving the humans alone .

Except that the aphids are feeding on the human's garden flowers, and the ants supplement their diet with cat food and kitchen scraps from inside the human's house.

[transcape5]

Originally Posted by loeee

Except that the aphids are feeding on the human's garden flowers, and the ants supplement their diet with cat food and kitchen scraps from inside the human's house.

LOL! That's funny! I mean your comment, not your predicament.

And they bring in their friends and neighbors...and don't leave!

Great photos, everyone!

[Lyle A]

Thanks Tom. Feel free to add to it. Here's a Mantis having lunch on a cricket.

[Lyle A]

This one's a little soft but it's the only Lady Beetle I've see with these markings.

[riha]

Her eis one of mine, taken a week ago (or something like that).
I hve no clue what it is, it was buzzing around in our backyard.
It looked like an chubby, very small, hairy bee, but with an very long straw/nose/tongue (whatever to call it).







It was taken with Nikon D300, Sigma 150mm macro lens + 3x Kenko tubes attached.

The image is heavily downscaled, not cropped.

[Lyle A]

Good shot Rickard. That's a bee fly. Not common like that one in these parts. Here's a May Fly.

[riha]

Thanks for the info Lyle.
Quite weird looking little creature as it is so small compared to an bee and so hairy compared to an fly

Do you know if they sting?

[Lyle A]

I'm pretty sure they don't. Somewhere in the Macro section is another thread with some outstanding images of one of those. Here's a Stink Bug.