depscribe's photos with the keyword: insect macro

Again, a total mystery. All I know about it is that it's almost too small to photograph with this rig.

If I had unlimited time and money, I think I would do a picture book of the ecology of the clover plant -- every day, I find new creatures who center all or part of their lives around clover. Such as this dinky fly which, like other flies I've seen, has balloon-shaped sacs behind its wings. Maybe someone can describe what they're for.

Whether this has anything to do with Jimmy and his cracked corn is unknown to me. Was easier to photograph than that bizarre yellow bee, though!

Went to town with the macro lens this morning to try and stalk this guy, who is smaller and different in coloration from other bumble bees (who were in profusion, too). Forty pictures later, this was the best I could do. They are a lot flightier than regular bumble bees. And I have just learned it is a Bombus perplexus , the cuckoo bee. Really!

Thought I'd post this one because it shows the really weird location of the insect's antennae -- way down its snout, in front of its eyes. Peculiar, huh.

A firefly.

This miniature wasp -- well under a half-inch long -- has stung this spider and paralyzed but not killed it. It will be taken to the wasp's nest, where an egg will be laid on it and, when the egg hatches, the larva will feed on the still-living spider. Mother Nature can be a bitch sometimes.

Here is its underside. It appears to be the prototype of many space monsters of the 1980s and 90s. It is, of course, a firefly.