A spur-throated grasshopper clings to a flower stem.
August 23, 2011 | Categories: images | Tags: Acrididae, animal, arthropod, Caelifera, grasshopper, green, Hexapoda, insect, invertebrate, Melanoplinae, nature, Orthoptera, shorthorned grasshopper, spurthroated grasshopper | Leave A Comment »
A female hoverfly (Toxomerus marginatus) pauses on the tip of a blade of grass.
June 8, 2011 | Categories: images | Tags: animal, arhtropod, Aschiza, black, female animal, female insect, flower fly, fly, green, hexapod, hoverfly, insect, small, syrphid fly, syrphidae, Toxomerini, Toxomerus, Toxomerus marginatus, wings, yellow | Leave A Comment »
A sawfly (Dolerus) on a forsythia branch. Both appear very early each spring.
April 30, 2011 | Categories: images | Tags: animal, black, dolerus, dolerus nitens, forsythia, insect, macro, sawfly, spring, symphyta, tenthredinidae | Leave A Comment »
A Tineola bisselliella, the common clothes moth.
March 24, 2011 | Categories: images | Tags: animal, clothes moth, insect, macro, moth, nature, pest, Tineola, Tineola bisselliella | Leave A Comment »