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That, sir, is not a butt, but a blep. Gorgeous pic tho!
A meadow scorpionfly snacking on a dead caterpillar (peacock butterfly), next to (*mayyyybe?*) the cocoon of the parasite that killed the caterpillar.
I'm not entirely sure of the subspecies. They are tiny, adorable, and *really* favor tansy.
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Oh wow, gorgeous bird!
Females do not, actually, have the orange tips on their wings, but the patterns on the underside are gorgeous.
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes). They're cute as heck so I'm gonna be stalking their foraging area.
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Thank you! A proper camera (R7) with a 85mm lens :) I know some people manage great macro with their phones, but I couldn't have gotten close enough with a phone, the bees hurried back into their tunnels whenever I got near.
Grey backed mining bee (Andrena vaga) waiting for me to get away from her nest.
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Herons look so incredibly cool. Until you see them from the front, of course. Gorgeous shot!
I know they're not rare or anything, but it's the first time I get to observe some. Sorry for the shaky video, I keep forgetting to take a beanbag.
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You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.
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I love it too! I wish I had noticed it when the picture was taken, because it's gorgeous.
A birch catkin bug invited itself. 
mostlypixels
8mo ago
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Bees are macro on hard mode, they never stop moving. You did a fantastic job. I always end up using burst mode and prayer. Have fun experimenting!
mostlypixels
8mo ago
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She looks like she's wearing a pollen crown!
mostlypixels
8mo ago
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The bees are the best. They get SO dusty. Also: can I see, please?
mostlypixels
8mo ago
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90% "that's amazing, I had no idea it looked so cool" and 10% "what is this ungodly abomination, let me unsee this" in my experience :)
I got myself extension tubes and it just happened to be THE season.
mostlypixels
8mo ago
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Why settle when I could get a 800mm 5.6 for a mere 14k?
mostlypixels
8mo ago
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The only reason I didn't impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don't even have bald eagles around here.
mostlypixels
9mo ago
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I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!
mostlypixels
9mo ago
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Try cloudhiker
It's based on a template, I made it for the Afternoon Tea pixel club: https://lostletters.neocities.org/afternoontea/ which you should check out :)
mostlypixels
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Thanks! He's so puffy, I figured he was cold.
mostlypixels
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Gorgeous photograph. How cold was it outside that day?
It seemed to be doing fine as far as "racing over plants and climbing from leaf to leaf" was concerned.
Hi! Sorry, very new at the whole "bugs" thing, and I'm still learning. I spotted this the other day (not sure of the stink bug species, possibly Nezara viridula), promptly spent hours watching macro timelapses of stink bugs hatching, going from gooey babies to hard shelled nymphs... Now to the question which has been bugging me: is there such a thing as "too late to hatch"? Can they "harden" inside the egg and just die there (maybe in the blackened eggs)? Thanks! ## Edit: I found another nest of the same species and took it home. So: have a top view of the hatched eggs and some first instar nymphs while I'm at it! 
Some kind of stink bug. No precise ID since the identification apps say the nymphs are a species that does not match the eggs at all. Edit: Nezara viridula