Unbelievable Insect Macro Photography

Carpenter bee head and compound eyes

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Head of a carpenter bee showing the compound eyes. Pictured in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Graphosoma lineatum qtl1

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Striped Shield Bugs (Graphosoma lineatum) mating near the old airstrip, Frankfurt, Germany.

Caliphrodae head

Sarcophagid Fly

Agelenopsis Spider

An American grass spider from the genus Agelenopsis, likely Agelenopsis aperta. Specimen found and photographed in Los Angeles, California. Image is a 13 frame focus stack. Image is slightly cropped from a 1:1 macro on a Canon 20D + EF 100mm 2.8 macro. 13 frames at ISO 100, 1/125, f8. Spider appears somewhat grayer and more opaque to the naked eye without macro lighting and magnification.

Sympetrum flaveolum

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This image shows an about 1.6 inch (4 cm) large male Yellow-winged Darter (Sympetrum flaveolum) from the side.

Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album)

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Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album), Farmoor Reservoir, Oxfordshire

Episyrphus balteatus

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This image shows a close-up of the head of a marmelade fly (Episyrphus balteatus) sitting on a flower of a Grey-haired Rockrose (Cistus creticus). The fly head has a diameter of 0.1 inch (2.5 mm).This image is a 100% crop and not a downscaled version of a larger photo.

Araneus diadematus

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Underside of a Diadem Spider (Araneus diadematus) in its web at a retention basin in Ahlen, Germany.

Harvestmen

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Macro shot of Opiliones Harvestmen. Probably male Phalangium opilio - @Author: Please add a location!!

Big, Big World

9/19/2015