I’ve always enjoyed photographing bees, such fascinating creatures and very beautiful too.
This year, with a new camera that has a super-macro lens, I have started playing around with capturing images of other small creatures and now have a collection of quite a few different bugs and mini beasties, though am unsure of the names for most of them!
All Kinds of Bugs in the Heartmade Garden …
Ferocious Looking Bugs
Pretty Bugs
Busy Bugs
It took me ages to capture this, a little hoverfly, I think … very quick and nimble!
Acrobatic Bugs
Bug Parties
Uninvited Guests
Though it completely ignored the tiny bugs … it was there for the pollen, it seems.
Bugged into Leaving
Strange and Beautiful Bug Mysteries
Perhaps some sort of gall? I kept an eye on it and nothing’s happening, it just seems to be drying up.
Indoor Bugs …
These were mostly taken one morning, following a very balmy evening, during which lots of moths were fluttering around the kitchen. (Kaitlin said it was like a Zoo for Bugs!)
Pale Beauties
Beautiful Markings
Bugs with Big Ears
Actually, I think they’re wings … fascinating design!
Battered Bugs
Spots
Flowing Lines
Fascinating Shapes
Gorgeous Patterns
And Bug Births!
What looked at first like a green smudge or maybe a paint chip on the wall …
… turned out, on closer inspection, to be these …
… which hatched into these!
I expect they were some sort of moth or butterfly caterpillars, in which case, their parents had miscalculated, it seemed. High on the far kitchen wall, they were days of hard travel and difficult terrain away from anything resembling food … assuming they don’t like papier mache!
So I scooped them off and into a leaf, which I curled up and put in the garden. Hope I did the right thing!
I have so enjoyed looking closer at the bug life around us and am looking forward to looking some more. And to learning more about them as I go.
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