Just a wasp

[British Red]

Oh yeah - and an ant

Red

 

[JonnyP]

Your having fun with that camera, arn't you Red..

 

[Staghound]

That second hoverfly's a cracker reminds me of hummingbird photos and, being picky, I reckon your flies playing leapfrog are wasps, going by the mouth parts.

These are my beasties for today.

Red and black (or black and red) plant hopper (been trying to track one of these down since you started this thread)

Click beetle

And a wolf spider

Cheers

Steve

 

[Staghound]

Couldn't resist adding this chap.

6-spotted green tiger beetle

Quite a set of jaws.

 

[British Red]

Stunning - keep em coming

My shots this weekend required working the bolt bewteen shots (or not in the case of the Benelli ) so I'm way behind - I'll catch up next week with luck

 

[British Red]

Not a patch on your beetle - but you might like this sequence of a Zebra Spider (I think)

What Big Eyes you have

All the better for jumping on prey!

Red

 

[shep]

Stunning stuff. I'm really enjoying this thread.

 

[Staghound]

Nice little spiders those, used to see them hunting on walls a lot in the summer.

We seem to have a minor plague of these this year, anyone else noticed them about.

Garden chafer

Steve

 

[brancho]

There are some superb photos on this thread keep it up all:You_Rock_

 

[Staghound]

Sorry folks I seem to be suffering from OCD (obsessive close-up disease) at the moment, I can't resist the urge to post these pictures. Not an arthropod this time,

Slow worm

Feel free to say if you've had enough

Steve

 

[British Red]

Are you kidding?

With shots like that?

Is he on your kitchen counter?????????????????

Red

 

[Staghound]

Close, kitchen table, I brought him home, took the shot then let him go where I found him. Cheating a bit but I didn't have the camera with me when I found him.

 

[JonnyP]

Cool slow worm....:You_Rock_

 

[Staghound]

Thanks JonnyP they're lovely little critters, eat pests and are completely harmless. it really annoys me when people think "arghhh it's a snake, kill it". Mind you I like snakes too, the native British ones anyway, I might be a bit less keen to approach them if I lived in Australia.

 

[Staghound]

Stunning - keep em coming

My shots this weekend required working the bolt between shots (or not in the case of the Benelli ) so I'm way behind - I'll catch up next week with luck

Hopefully you ended up with better eating from those shots, unless you're shooting beetles with a twelve bore, cos that's just not sporting!

 

[British Red]

It was a twelve bore - but its not a very sporting one

 

[Pignut]

My humble, out of focus, slightly to far away offering!

Probably better if you dont comment!

 

[British Red]

My only comment is

"wish I'd taken it"

 

[JonnyP]

Yeah, I agree, nice shot Pignut..

 

[sandbender]

This wasp has been in and out of our flat over the last few days on a mission to build small nests, either on the sleeve of my motorcycle jacket or the folds of the curtains.

I'm having little luck in catching a good shot of her, she is way too fast...

However here is a nice one of a completed nest...

Not sure what type of wasp she is. She is quite large though at about three centimeters nose to tail.