10 Spot Ladybird, Adalia decempunctata
10 Spot Ladybird, Adalia decempunctata, with the giveaway brown legs!
One of the many disguises of the 10 Spot Ladybird, Adalia decempunctata, but all with the giveaway brown legs!
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Hawthorn Mining Bee male, Andrena chrysosceles
Hawthorn Mining Bee male, Andrena chrysosceles
Lots of Hawthorn Mining Bee males, Andrena chrysosceles, hanging around hopefully in the sunny but still chilly garden.
#Hees #Hymenoptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Bristly Ladybird, Rhyzobius lophanthae
The Bristly Ladybirds, Rhyzobius lophanthae, have survived the wet winter and are still kicking around in the conifers in good numbers.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Demetrias atricapillus
Demetrias atricapillus doesn't have a common name, so I'm calling it the Amber Aphid Chomper.
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6 #macrophotography #macro
Melibe aka hooded nudibranchs amongst bull kelp blades
#nudibranch #melibe #kelp #bullkelp #pnwscuba #pnwwildlife #washingtonwildlife #uwmacro #uwmacrophotography #kelpforest #olympicpeninsula #olympustg6
One day one of these #VC55 specimens is going to turn out to be something other than Dicranopalpus ramosus senu stricto...
#Arachnids #Opiliones #macro #OlympusTG6 #Arachtober
Grey Damsel Bug, Himacerus major, helpfully flaunting the key identification feature of the dark patches on the hind femora.
Grey Damsel Bug, Himacerus major, helpfully flaunting the key identification feature of the dark patches on the hind femora.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Nabidae #macrophotography #macro #OlympusTG6
Avon By The Sea, New Jersey.
Beach season is over! Closing the books on the summer of 2025. It was epic.
#olympus #olympustg6 #olympustough6 #nj #nerjersey #avonbythesea
Avon By The Sea, New Jersey.
#newjersey #avonbythesea #nj #beach #jerseyshore #olympus #olympustg6 #olympustough6
Avon By The Sea, New Jersey.
#newjersey #avonbythesea #nj #beach #jerseyshore #olympus #olympustg6 #olympustough6 #americanflag
Crashing waves at Avon By The Sea, New Jersey.
#newjersey #avonbythesea #nj #beach #jerseyshore #olympus #olympustg6 #olympustough6
Short-winged Cone-head, Conocephalus dorsalis.
My first ever Short-winged Cone-head, Conocephalus dorsalis.
#grasshoppers #Orthoptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Phasia barbifrons, a parasitoid of shieldbugs
Phasia barbifrons, a parasitoid of shieldbugs. Also keen on Goldrod for refuelling.
#Diptera #Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
It's been one of those days ... the ups an downs of entomological aspiration.
Read more: ajcarthropoda.blogspot.com/2025/08/one-...
#Beetles #Coleoptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Chaetostomella cylindrica
I'm no Dipterist but Chaetostomella cylindrica managed to sneak into one of my sample tubes yesterday.
#Flies #Diptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Hawthorn Shieldbug nymph, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale.
Hawthorn Shieldbug nymph, Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Lucerne Bug, Adelphocoris lineolatus.
Lucerne Bug, Adelphocoris lineolatus.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #OlympusTG6
Chilacis typhae, Closterotomus norwegicus, Deraeocoris ruber, Lygus pratensis, Oncotylus viridiflavus, Phytocoris varipes, Plagiognathus chrysanthemi, Tingis ampliata.
It's Peak Bug and I had a bugtastic day out yesterday with m'colleague Sue.
#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #UKWildlife #OlympusTG6
Expressed Love On The High Level
#photography
#newcastleupontyne
#gateshead
#northeastengland
#olympustg6
#highlevelbridge
#tynebridge
#swingbridge
Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi
Continuing the green theme, Green Hairstreak, Callophrys rubi.
#Butterflies #Lepidoptera #OlympusTG6
You can find them throughout the Pacific (Korea, Japan, Siberia, and Alaska to California) dining on bryozoans.
#nudibranch #nudibranchs #dorid #modestclowndorid #uwmacrophotography #uwmacro #olympustg6 #pnw #pnwwildlife #washingtonwildlife #washington #tidepooling #lowtide
Nursery Web Spider, taken with my Olympus Tg6 a really great camera for macro. #arachnid #spider #macro #photography #nature #olympustg6
