Close-up (macro) photograph of a yellow and black wasp on a rough wooden surface (park bench armrest), head down digging a trench out of the wood, mixing it with saliva to take back to the nest as building material.

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A German Wasp (/Vespula germanica/) in Brompton Cemetery, strip mining a park bench for nest material.

A shield shaped green insect on the black-painted surface of an iron fence post.

"Torpor"
As winter weather approaches this common green shieldbug (/Palomena prasina/) chooses a bad place to hibernate on an iron balustrade.
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An adult grey squirrel sits atop a gravestone eating peanuts from the shell. The headline is "NUTZ!" and the subtitle, let's say lower down, reads "I haz dem...". To be clear, this is very definitely a male squirrel.

NUTZ!
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Photographed through the wall of an aquarium bowl, an assassin snail's enormous foot clings to the glass. Its shell is a conical helix, black with a yellow helical stripe, though the phone cam doesn't do the natural colour-contrast justice. Two tentacles with eyes about half-way along, one mostly in front of the other from this viewpoint, extend to the left and a large breathing tube or siphon points vertically. On top of the shell, behind the siphon, sits a bright red shrimp, about the same horizontal nose-to-tail length as the snail's vertical shell length. The shrimps antennae and legs are translucent and there are white tips to the tail fans or uropods. In the defocussed background, behind the shrimp, is an orange brown dead leaf that provides a surface for microbial colonization. The rest of the background is moss, white sand and micro grass

Shrimp Rodeo - just got back to find this going on in the new aquarium. A cherry shrimp (/Neocaridina davidi/) rides an assassin snail (/Clea helena/) heading for the surface and freedom!
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