832-391521 - Lake Upper Two Medicine Lake, mountain peaks Lone Walker Mountain and Mount Rockwell in the background, dramatic clouds, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, North America
832-391522 - Hikers at Upper Two Medicine Lake, mountain peaks Lone Walker Mountain and Mount Rockwell in the background, dramatic clouds, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, North America
832-391523 - Hikers at Upper Two Medicine Lake, mountain peak Lone Walker Mountain in the back, dramatic clouds, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, North America
1350-680 - Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their role in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the European honey bee, for producing honey and beeswax.
1350-653 - A bush cricket on a Rosmary plant. The atrophied wings of Ephippiger species are unfit to flight and only used for the emission of sounds. This one has some parasitic mites on it
1350-641 - Somo kind of wolf spider, they are robust and agile hunters with good eyesight. They live mostly solitary lives and hunt alone. Some are opportunistic hunters pouncing upon prey as they find it or even chasing it over short distances. Some will wait for passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow.
1350-649 - Some kind of cucko wasp, there arer over 3000 species. Parasitoid or cleptoparasitic wasps, this one is highly sculptured, with brilliantly colored metallic-like body
1350-631 - Rhynchophorus ferrugineus or red palm weevil; it is killing all palm trees in Spain, originary from South east Asia it is believed it came to Spain in some imported palm trees from Egypt
1350-682 - Black soldier flies are common and widespread fly of the family Stratiomyidae. Neither the larvae nor adults are considered pests or vectors. Instead, black soldier fly larvae play a similar role to that of redworms as essential decomposers in breaking down organic substrates and returning nutrients to the soil/environment.
1350-630 - Rhynchophorus ferrugineus or red palm weevil; it is killing all palm trees in Spain, originary from South east Asia it is believed it came to Spain in some imported palm trees from Egypt
1350-684 - This species is unmistakable within its range, with bright yellow wings marked with small brown patches along the costa of the forewing and a small brown-edged white stigma, also on the forewing.
1350-644 - A magnified view of its beautiful eye; a special technique was used to remove the ommatidum reflections, leaving an image with SEM like surface detail
1350-687 - Very high magnification shot of a silverfish eye; a special technique was used to reveal all the eye surface texture in order to get a SEM like image, but with colour.
1350-652 - Anthidium manicatum or European wool carder bee, they are leaf-cutters and use leaves and petals from various ornamental plants such as roses, azaleas, ash, redbud, and bougainvillea. They use the leaf and petal segments to construct their nests
1350-686 - A Hybomitra affinis, horse fly. Horse flies are often large and agile in flight, and the females bite animals, including humans, to obtain blood. They prefer to fly in sunlight, avoiding dark and shady areas, and are inactive at night.
1350-677 - Tipula is a very large insect genus in the fly family Tipulidae. They are commonly known as crane flies or daddy longlegs. Worldwide there are well over a thousand species.
1350-675 - Crab spiders do not build webs to trap prey, though all of them produce silk for drop lines and sundry reproductive purposes; some are wandering hunters and the most widely known are ambush predators.
1350-648 - Some kind of cucko wasp, there arer over 3000 species. Parasitoid or cleptoparasitic wasps, this one is highly sculptured, with brilliantly colored metallic-like body
1350-645 - Episyrphus balteatus, sometimes called the marmalade hoverfly; like most other hoverflies it mimics a much more dangerous insect, the solitary wasp, though it is a quite harmless species
1350-676 - Tipula is a very large insect genus in the fly family Tipulidae. They are commonly known as crane flies or daddy longlegs. Worldwide there are well over a thousand species.
1350-670 - As their common name suggests, they are often seen hovering or nectaring at flowers; the adults of many species feed mainly on nectar and pollen, while the larvae (maggots) eat a wide range of foods.
1350-678 - The sponging mouthparts consist of a fleshy, elbowed labium, at the distal end of which are large, sponge-like organs called the labella (singular, labellum). The labella is a complex structure consisting of many grooves, called pseudotrachea, which sops up liquids much like a sponge does.
1350-642 - A common and widespread fly of the family Stratiomyidae, and quite possibly the best-known species in the entire infraorder. The larvae are used in manure management, for both house fly control and reduction in manure volume, and the mature larvae and prepupae raised in manure management operations are themselves useful as feed supplements
1350-647 - A female walking stick insect, this one is a common species iun Europe. However their natural camouflage can make them extremely difficult to spot
1350-634 - A Musca domestica or house fly showing a severe mite infestion; three mites under the subgenal area and two more between labellum and thorax. Those mites show a bright red colour and finger-print like texture
1350-659 - The German wasp has typical wasp colours of black and yellow. It is very similar to the common wasp (Vespula vulgaris), but its face has three tiny black dots.
1350-685 - Peacock tail feathers are pigmented brown, but their microscopic structure makes them also reflect blue, turquoise, and green light, and they are often iridescent.
1350-669 - Psilothrix is a genus of soft-winged flower beetles; they are very shy and will throw themselves to the ground if they feel any danger. The colour of this beautiful insect is brilliant metallic blue-green.
1350-673 - The Tachinidae are a large and variable family of true flies within the insect order Diptera, with more than 8,200 known species and many more to be discovered. Most are protelean parasitoids, or occasionally parasites, of arthropods.
1350-646 - A beautiful and yet small jumping spider; They have good vision and use it for hunting and navigating. They are capable of jumping from place to place, secured by a silk tether
1350-643 - Household cockroaches are parasitized by this ensing wasp , it is an important biological control. Easy recogniced by it particular body shape and beautiful deep blue eyes