Justfolk's photos with the keyword: 23D6-481-1a

I was brushing my teeth when I looked closely at a black spot in a little pool on the edge of the sink. There was this bug, apparently dead. With the corner of a paper towel. I retrieved her and examined her with a flashlight and a magnifying glass. And of course I took a couple of dozen pictures, none of them very good. I was testing the focus-stacking software on my camera but that was no big success. This picture was not focus-stacked. And although it was under the magnifying glass (and thus the two lightspots in the upper right) I was shooting at this point through the plastic side of the glass. My 60mm macro lens can get in pretty close on its own. I think it is a tiny ichneumon wasp, no more than 3mm long from head to arse tip. Where she came from in the first week of December I don't know. I say "she" because at least in some of the other shots I can see her ovipositor sticking back from the rear end of her body. I like finding bugs. But really, in this case I just like the picture. [And . . . maybe it wasn't an ovipositor at all, but a leg shoved off in a strange position. Oh, who knows?]