A small dusty brown moth, I believe, gathering nectar on the orange zinnia in my garden last summer. Its delicate feet are standing on the centre of the zinnia's yellow star-shaped disk florets that resembles a crown. The moth's eye and antennaes as well as the small body are captured in this photo quite nicely.

A dusty visitor on a brilliant throne.🦋👑

#macromonday
#mygarden
#bloomscrolling
#zinnia
#pollinators
#moth
#flowers
#gardening
#coloraday
#colouraday
#insectthursday

📸 August 29, 2025 🇨🇦

A fuzzy black and pale bee emerges, wings up, from a lemon blossom. Lemon on the left, blurry pink/green/yellow bud, and green stems.

#YellowThu #insectthursday #bees #flowers #pollinators #nature #macro #photography 📷

FOUR ladybug buttons for your spring projects!
#plastic #SHANK #Shanks #buttons #ladybug #Bugs #insectmom #insectthursday #easter #garden #gardening #GardeningX #colorful #insects #ladybirdbeetles #crafting #freeshipping @2Fun4Words

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This chubby little digger bee looks like he has pants
#Bees #Nature #InsectThursday

Bumble Bee
#Bees #Nature #InsectThursday

Looking through leaves at a bug that is camouflaged as a stick.

A stick?
#AprilFools #PalacesAndGardens
It’s a Bug’s Life for #WeekMForMovies #AlphabetChallenge and a not so great shot for #AlphabetTechPhoto: Depth of Field
#InsectThursday #Macro
#Alone #SensoryArt

Yellow Jacket contributing to the pollination effort
#Wasp #Nature #InsectThursday

Pollen covered fly
#Nature #InsectThursday

Hover fly helping pollinate the world
#Nature #InsectThursday

Pollinators are out in full force
#Bees #Nature #InsectThursday

The New Mexico State butterfly: Sandia Hairstreak (Callophrys mcfarlandi) #Butterfly #Nature #InsectThursday

Digger Bee in a Cherry Tree
#Bees #Nature #InsectThursday

Two-Tail Swallowtail Butterfly (Papilio multicaudata) in New Mexico #Butterfly #Nature #InsectThursday

#insectthursday

The bee refused to pose. 😂😀 It's a bit fuzzy. 😝

A red and black spotted Seven-spotted Ladybird on a light purple snake's-head fritillary flower in the evening sun

A hoverfly on a yellow dandelion flower

A Speckled Wood, a dark brown butterfly with cream coloured spots, perched on the ground on a stony path

Seven-spotted Ladybird on a snake's-head fritillary, hoverfly on a dandelion and Speckled Wood at Lakeside Country Park today. #InsectThursday #Bugsky #UKWildlife

A relatively large piece of leaf that has been cut away from the rest of the leaf is being carried by a leafcutter ant worker (Atta cephalotes) along a thin twig from right to left. Another worker appears to be riding the leaf on the other end.

#insectthursday
Leafcutter #ant - Atta cephalotes
(Shot at @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social 2-21-26) 🪲🪳🐜 #photography #macrophotography #animal #invertebrate #insect #ants #bug #bugsky #ento #zoo #cincyzoopic

Daily beauty.II. 🌺🌿🐝🌺🐝🌿🌺

#InsectThursday #FlowerScape🌷
#Flowers #Bloomscrolling #Nature
#TheLittleThings #DailyFlowers
#Spring #Gardening #Sunshine
#SpringTime #SpringVibes🌸🍃
#RiettSzDailyFlowers

A view from the rear of a moth hovering by some small flowers. The wings are outstretched, with white stripes on a brown background. The lower wing has pink with black around it. The abdomen is large, and has brown and white at the top, and brown, white and black at the rear. The proboscis is visible at the head, going forward and then down out of sight.

A view from the rear of a moth hovering by some small flowers. The wings are outstretched, with white stripes on a brown background. The lower wing has pink with black around it. The abdomen is large, and has brown and white at the top, and brown, white and black at the rear. The proboscis is visible at the head, going forward and then down out of sight.

🦋 I almost let #insectthursday go by without posting one... Spring is springing, and the various winged wonders are enjoying wild verbena around my hill. This is a white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata) from yesterday. #macro #photography #butterflies

Peacock Tarantula (Poecilotheria Metallica): 20cm (8in) Legspan. This is the only blue species of the genus Poecilotheria. The species' natural habitat is deciduous forest in Andhra Pradesh, India. It has been classified as Critically endangered.

#InsectThursday
#Insect
#naturephotography
#macrophotography
#PeacockTarantula

📸 Paul Ash
@worldwildlife.bsky.social

A black-striped yellow butterfly (a female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail) feeds from a cluster of pink azaleas. Its abdomen is sprinkled with pollen and it has blue and orange crescents along the border of its hindwings. The blue crescents designate that it's a female.

"#Spring work is gong on with joyful enthusiasm." - John Muir🦋🌺 #InsectThursday #Butterflies #Insects #Pollinators #Garden #EastCoastKin #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Azaleas #ColorADay #YellowThu #NaturePhotography #SpringtimeinAtlanta #PhotographersofBlueSky

A Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus Lapidarus on the woodland floor with its wings folded back and its black back and orange tail showing clearly against the brown dirt. Camera: Canon EOS400D digital

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies
Bee Movie (2007)
#InsectThursday #Photography #EastCoastKin
This fuzzy little Red-tailed Bumblebee Bombus Lapidarus was buzzing around the woodland floor this evening as I photographed Bluebells.

A little drone fly sitting on Camilla Cupido. Storm Dave on its way for Easter just in time to destroy all the blooms in flower.🤦🏻‍♀️ In spite of that have a lovely Easter. #InsectThursday

I Heard it Through the Grapevine 🎶
#insectthursday #monarch #butterflies #insects #grapevine #plants #gardens #summer #gladysknightandthepips #photography

Close-up of little brown, black, orange-ish butterfly perched on my finger as I moved her off the path and on to a native blackberry flower.

Helped this tiny Western Pine Elfin (Callophrys eryphon) off the path this week in #PtReyes. It had been nine years since I'd seen one, so meeting this beauty was very special.💚
#InsectThursday #Butterflies #NationalParks #NaturePhotos #iNat #LittleThings 📷🦋

Chrysomya (Chrysomya is a genus of Old World blow flies (family Calliphoridae) known for their metallic green or blue bodies) "Chrysomya from some research at my college's field station. Simply fabulous."

#InsectThursday #macrophotography
#insect
#entomology
#photography #nature

📸 -Ace Macro Entomologist
@acemacro.bsky.social

A seven spotted ladybird on a dried windblown oak leaf

Look who I just found, mooching about in the leaf litter 🌱🐞

#InsectThursday #BugSky #UKWildlife

Good evening Hope !!🌺🌞
Happy #InsectThursday !🦋

Couldn't resist one of my favourite Swallowtail 🦋 for #InsectThursday #Insects #Butterflies #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #ECK

A macro close-up photo of a katydid nymph on a yellow rose. Looking similar to a tiny grasshopper, there are dark brown stripes and dots on the legs, stripes on the very long antennae, stripes on the trunk, and big black eyes. The legs are a shade lighter green than the trunk.

#InsectThursday:

A tiny katydid on a yellow rose,
from San Jose, California, yesterday.

A large yellow and brown winged moth with an orange body rests against a green leaf.

#InsectThursday
#macrophotography
#naturephotography
#insect
#moth

📸 Gray
@grays.art