Elusive giant #StickInsect species discovered in #rainforests of Far North Queensland https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-31/giant-stick-insect-acrophylla-alta-wet-tropics-discovery/105596666 paper: https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5647.4.4

"They live in high-altitude #forest, high in the canopy, and unless a bird or a storm knocks one down we just can't find them up there... Weighing at up to 44 grams, A. alta is believed to be the heaviest #insect in #Australia... due to the elusive nature of the species, scientists are yet to find and describe a male."

yur manchmal weekendisches dragonfly

Butterfly 2025-5
Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio Troilus)

Shooting the messenger
Doesn't improve the reality of the message

Schönbär (Callimorpha dominula)
Photo Dietmar Bachmann
Aargau, Switzerland

Beautiful bear, Butterfly (moth) from the bear moth subfamily (Arctiinae). The beautiful bear was butterfly of the year 2010.

Common candy-striped spider (Enoplognatha ovata) eating a wasp (if anyone knows the species please tell me)

Dusky Stink Bug

(Euschistus tristigmus)

I've really been enjoying seeing all the different stink bugs around right now. Lots of their pretty little nymph babies everywhere too. 

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#Butterfly #Pollinators #Insect #Iowa #NativePlants

Pearl Crescent butterfly on a Brown-eyed Susan flower.

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Illustration of a Greene's giant wasp (Megarhyssa greenei) for Menagerie board game by Moose Games

Something beautiful for the first day of August.

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tsinvni

Variegated Fritillary
#ProtectNature #nature #butterfly #insect #Cherokee #tsalagi

After my first roll (Ilford HP5+) with the Pentax 17 film camera, I have the feeling that the Auto mode does not focus well compared to the Program or Bokeh mode with the right zone focus. Many photos I took in Auto mode are blurred, especially where the focus point was not clear, or where the object was close to the camera. This photo is in Bokeh mode.

What do you think?

Time to carve a new block! This is a transverse-banded flower fly in progress. Because of its yellow and black stripes, tendency to hover (it’s a hover fly after all) and love of flowers, it can be mistaken for a bee. But no, it’s a fly. The eyes are the real giveaway for this bee mimic, to my mind. While not a bee, it is an excellent pollinator and another friend to gardeners.