Boss photos you've taken

[Bilbo]

We as humans just don't want to get too close to the cleg fly females - them pincers make a nasty mess of your skin!

(Haematopota crassicornis and) Haematopota pluvialis are very similar. This is the latter (brown mottled wings).

She kept landing on my shirt and I kept flicking her away - and for a brief amount of time, she landed on the fence, where I felt more comfy approaching!

Paul.

 

[kev]

We as humans just don't want to get too close to the cleg fly females - them pincers make a nasty mess of your skin!

(Haematopota crassicornis and) Haematopota pluvialis are very similar. This is the latter (brown mottled wings).

She kept landing on my shirt and I kept flicking her away - and for a brief amount of time, she landed on the fence, where I felt more comfy approaching!

I would agree with that . . . . . . . . . . . she is stunningly beautiful when seen close up like that though

 

[Bilbo]

I would agree with that . . . . . . . . . . . she is stunningly beautiful when seen close up like that though

Honestly Kev - I spent more time backing away and keeping out her way, than I did pointing the lens at her. For all that beauty, there is a very nasty undertone with these buggers!

Paul.

 

[Seathestars]

Wood Pigeon, in rain

 

[Bilbo]

A new photo of the remains of an aphid, it's body attached to a podium created by a braconid wasp. This tiny parasitic wasp finds a target host and deposits an egg inside it. This egg will be dormant until the host is big enough for the larva to hatch and then the wasp larva feeds on the insides of said host.

This is a test shot for a new diffuser however, but it's still a fascinating subject matter!

Paul.

 

[Seathestars]

Mute Swan Cygnet

 

[Bilbo]

Today and tonight's ramblings yielded the following: a hoverfly larvae which was looking for a place to sleep for a few weeks, a snail and it's trail, and a millipede.


Hoverfly larvae:

(White lipped) Banded Snail:

And the millipede:

Paul.

 

[fandjango]

Back in the studio yesterday exploring abstraction and solid form

 

[Devanski]

Armadale Castle, Skye.

 

[Bilbo]

This salticus scenicus jumping spider has gotten a meal that is huge compared to itself!

Paul.

 

[Sassy Colombian]

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Great picture. I really enjoy the vivid colors of the Damsel fly (I would have been fooled it was a dragonfly)

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Staying in Port na Long. Off on a boat trip today, puffin spotting.
Unfortunately only use my phone, so my pics are never really boss.

Your pics are great even from your phone, says a person who now days only uses her phone to take pics lol

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Nubes! Who knows their clouds?

 

[Bilbo]

Not me...

 

[Sassy Colombian]

Sunset. Taken from my phone while my husband drove us around.