insect

This is a Giant Ichnuemon Wasp female, she is currently laying eggs directly on Horntail Wasp larva (if you look at her abdomen, you can see the very long ovipositor going down between all of her legs and into the tree). OM-1, Laowa 50mm, Godox v350o, Cygnustech diffuser

A fly on a tree. Gear: Sony A7III 100mm 2x macro lens Speedlight & diffuser..

Here's a 13 image stack of a Weevil I found in Seattle, WA. INat says it is a Sthereus horridus and can only be found in the Pacific Northwest OM-1, Laowa 50mm, Godox v350o, Cygnustech Diffuser. Completely manual handheld stack.

Gear: Sony A7III 100mm 2x macro lens Speedlight & diffuser..

Honey bee in action. My first post on forum :) Olympus E-M1MarkII M.40-150mm F2.8 + MC-14 ƒ/5.6 fl 210.0 mm ss 1/1250 iso 320

Gear: Sony A7III 100mm 2x macro lens Speedlight & diffuser..

Bumblebee with parasites on a forget-me-not

On the forget me nots a beautifull cinnamon bug also black and red squash bug. (Corizus hyoscyami)

Young South African Mantis.

Just got my Macro lens today and I wanted to share this with you guys. This is my first Macro photo. I know I probably did it all wrong but I tried!

An insect to be very careful of!

For this I used Focus bracketing 60 photos and composed with Helicon Focus and then ran through Photoshop. E-M1Mark III M.Zuiko 60mmf/2.8 macro Caruba extension tube 20mm Iso 200, 1/6 sec. Light: daylight only Tripod, very simply the coffee table. Also included a photo of how the photo was...

E-M1Mark III M.Zuiko 60mmf/2.8 macro Caruba extension tube 10mm Iso 100, 1/25 sec. Stack of fifteen photos. Hand held. Daylight

Today after it got dry I went into the garden with the macro lens looking for Springtails. And if you look closely you can see at the back of the bottom of the ass the tail with which they can jump.

These are tiny little quick moving flies about 2mm but rather striking.

One of the gardens alpha predators!