timsdd aka Tim's Digital Darkroom

The last of the bugs, these bugs anyway. I hope to get some more soon before I cut a bunch of tall grass/poison weeds/who knows what else behind our back fence.

Which brings an interesting point….we have this section of land behind our back fence, a drainage ditch….if I cut it and get it cleared….maybe I could use it for photos. Like stuff I wouldn’t want to do inside necessarily, like break stuff! But that is another topic altogether – back to the bugs!

PEEK-a-boo!

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I think this is an aphid. Boy! They are tiny!! I truly could not see if I had him in focus or not, just had to guess.

I guess moth bum is better than no bum @ all! It was hard sneaking up on this guy that was for sure. Pretty small too, size of a quarter maybe. Basically half the size of a full blown monarch butterfly I would estimate.

Also hard to nab, the sprinter of bugs, the Lady Bug. Must have covered 2 miles in the time it took for me to take these few shots….2 miles equivalent in bug travel ;-)

This was an unusually muggy day so it’s no wonder I found lots of critters. At least these (maybe aside from the fly) are not nearly as scary as the spider I shot last time!

This guy is a trip, he looks like he’s poised to answer a question in this angle.
He has his arms out like that ready to snap down on prey, pretty wild; nature’s bear trap!

At least this fly likes flowers and not poo! :D

Buttermoth! I guess a moth but he looks awfully butterflyish :)

He was JITTERY! I had to reposition myself no less than 9′er times.