A male golden dung fly (Scathophaga stercoraria) hanging out in my lettuce bed after I dumped out some composted manure. Dozens of them showed up and I got the sense they were waiting for females. #diptera#fly#nature#insects#entomology#MacroPhotography
A little saxifrage living its best life. If you look closely you can see the sticky hairs on its stem as well as the cute red and yellow polkadots on the petals
Found this on my arm after a run. I'm wondering whether it might be a strawberry clipper (Anthonomus signatus), though most pics show a more pronounced pattern on elytra. It's tiny, maybe 2 mm. Cute, but loathed by growers of strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries. #insect#weevil#beetle#coleoptera#entomology#nature#macro#MacroPhotography
In macrophotography, one of the key tricks is to get the eyes of your subject in focus...
But what do you do when the subject doesn't have eyes?
You just aim for whatever they have instead!
For example, this Oribatid mite's head has 'trichobothria', which are pits with a thick hair poking out. It's thought that this arrangement - which is surprisingly complex - serve a vibration-sensing function to help the mite navigate its tiny world.
A reminder that New Zealand and other land masses in the south-west Pacific are home to LEAF-VEINED SLUGS!
Unlike their omnivorous European relatives, these unique leaf-mimicking slugs eat only fungi. They breathe mainly through the skin of the back, which is kept moist by secretions passing along the many grooves.
Different views of flowers on the same plant (Anthemis tinctoria is my guess). I think I lean more toward liking the second one at the moment, but yesterday I thought the first was better...
Wassup fam, my baby is turning 8 in 3.5 weeks! As such, to get her presents and give her the Kirby-themed birthday she desires, I'm gonna be buggin you all with my photography and where you can acquire my art to help a Black kid have a great birthday!