The Four Ages Of Sand

Butterfly bottom

This one (in a park in Venezuela) simply refused to show me its head. Still pretty from behind though. 

 

Butterfly World Revisited

Another big beauty from Butterfly World. Look at the size of it, compared to the Clearwing butterfly next to it!

Getting in close:

 

Butterfly 44 revisited; The Venusta Yellow (Pyrisitia venusta)

I posted a shot of this Venezuelan butterfly before but now I've got a close up, and I've also got an ID for it. The simple but lovely Venusta Yellow (Pyrisitia venusta)

 

 

Something watching me in the grass

I was on my knees in Norfolk when I spotted this staring back at me:

A Cabbage White butterfly.

 

Happy Lady Dragonfly

Now that Winter is here I've found some time to go through all the memory cards from the Summer and Autumn.

I love the way this Female Common Darter appears to be smiling:

Unidentified bug

What a strange looking bug.  At first I thought it might be a hornet, but it doesn't look like any images I can find on the Net:

Zooming in on a Hoverfly

 

 

 

Notice the ocelli on the top of its head? They are the 3 black dome-shaped dots in a triangle between the compound eyes. They are also known as simple eyes, and are believed to detect only light and movement. See bee's ocelli on previous post

Aeshna mixta - Migrant Hawker, in flight

At last, I got a decent shot of one in the air!

Ah, how far we've come.

My new Tamron 1:1 Macro lens (previous post) is incredible!

I just had a quick search of 4AoS and this is the best fly pic I could find, taken last year

 

Not bad for a Point-and-press camera.

Now here's my latest:  

 

And this is just the beginning!

Butterfly revisited

The HD video function on the Casio High speed camera really is excellent. Here's a still from the recent Cabbage White video