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A very cool cat of a flowering plant - I'm going to have to see if they "live" around this part of the planet, or not. Thanks, deirdre - I love the whites of its whiskers.
 
A few more insects from a hot, sunny morning, and one from overnight

Saturday was a really hot morning, so the insects were very busy and flighty, the wind was rather brisk, so some effort was required to find some shelter. All photographs taken on a Panasonic G1 with 105mm, f/2.8 Sigma DG Macro, minimal post processing in Bibble Pro 5.

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Thanks to Paul (pdh) we now know this to be a Marmalade Hoverfly (I'd like to call it the Golden Shred Hoverfly :), or is that advertising?)

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Yet another busy Bee

Both the above photographs have been somewhat cropped

And from overnight

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Gold Spot moth

Barrie
 
from this mornings local walk

I've seen several newly emerged Small Tortoiseshell butterflies in recent days, today I was finally able to catch one with my camera. Taken on a Panasonic G1 with 100-300mm Panasonic lens.

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I've added these two from this evening, could love be in the air?, we'll never know, though they did fly off together.

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The images were post processed with Bibble Pro 5 and were not cropped.

Barrie
 
Here are a couple from my XZ-1 outing at the Dallas Arboretum. This guy just kept hanging around. I was so excited to see him that I didn't think to stop the lens down for better DOF. OOC jpgs with just a slight bit of contrast added, besides the crop.

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Thanks for looking,
 
I went for a walk with the 28/1.9 Ultron today, but also thought to put the KH 57/1.4 in my pocket "just in case" ... which was fortunate. It isn't a macro lens, but it does focus rather close, and it's just long enough ... in a pinch

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I'm hoping the grebeman will pop along to identify ...
 
I went for a walk with the 28/1.9 Ultron today, but also thought to put the KH 57/1.4 in my pocket "just in case" ... which was fortunate. It isn't a macro lens, but it does focus rather close, and it's just long enough ... in a pinch

I'm hoping the grebeman will pop along to identify ...

Hi Paul,

The top 2 are Skipper Butterflies, the distinctly hooked antennae mark them out as Large Skipper, probably female as they lack the dark marked scent gland along the central vein of the forewing that the males possess. The bottom butterfly is a Speckled Wood, a very shade tolerant species that can overwinter as either a larva or a pupa which is a bit unusual.

Barrie
 
Here are a couple from my XZ-1 outing at the Dallas Arboretum. This guy just kept hanging around. I was so excited to see him that I didn't think to stop the lens down for better DOF. OOC jpgs with just a slight bit of contrast added, besides the crop...
What a gorgeous red body or tail or ovipositor(?)!!
 
What a gorgeous red body or tail or ovipositor(?)!!

BB,

Whilst I have no idea what species it is, I would suggest that the second picture shows that the extension at the end of the abdomen is made up of two parallel members, hence that would represent the claspers that a male uses to hold the female during mating. Also there is evidence under abdominal segment 3 of the organ used for the temporary holding of sperm in the transfer of that sperm from the male to the female, so not an ovipositor in my opinion.

Barrie
 
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