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[Ecc233]

I think there is some overlap with macro, but not completely. This was taken with an iPhone14 as it was all I had with me. This is the African giant centipede.

 

[OhLook]

Katydid resting in tomato plant after a molt

 

[hammer]

This one is not alive, since it's estimated to be 350 million years old.
It's a fossilized Trilobite .... an ancient sea bug.

 

[OhLook]

Mating pair, Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)

 

[BigAl]

Most certainly not a macro, or anywhere near macro. Shot with my Sigma 150-600mm C.




Alan

 

[Jack Dawe]

Beautiful Demoiselle
Norfolk Hawker

 

[OhLook]

Norfolk HawkerView attachment 13457

The light green things--are they retractable eyelids?!

 

[Jack Dawe]

The light green things--are they retractable eyelids?!

Not eyelids. They are its actual eyes.

 

[OhLook]

Not eyelids. They are its actual eyes.

I mean the parts that are solid green without dark spots. They look like partial covers on the dorsal surfaces of the eyes.

 

[Jack Dawe]

I mean the parts that are solid green without dark spots. They look like partial covers on the dorsal surfaces of the eyes.

Well, I'm afraid I don't know enough about dragonflies to say. Insects aren't really my field. I have always understood that they don't have eyelids, just large, compound eyes, but it seems it's a bit more complicated than that:

Do Dragonflies Have Eyelids? – BioBubblePets

biobubblepets.com

 

[Jack Dawe]

Meadow Grasshopper

 

[Lester Wareham]

I mean the parts that are solid green without dark spots. They look like partial covers on the dorsal surfaces of the eyes.

No it is all just the compound eye. DFs often have some variation in coloration that can be ID diagnostic. Additionally there is often an apparently moving pseudo pupil which occurs because the ommatidia that one observes "head-on" (along their optical axes) absorb the incident light.

Black Darter (Sympetrum danae) female head on, the brown, yellow and black parts are all "eye" consisting of ommatidia
insect Black Darter f A001_002_26-08-19 by Lester W, on Flickr

 

[OhLook]

Most insects lay eggs. Some aphids give live birth, like this one



Lateral view of the leafcutter bee shown in frontal view at beginning of "Are you looking at me?" thread

 

[OhLook]

As seen in--

 

[Jack Dawe]

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As seen in--

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Congratulations! Pity they cropped the antennae, but I guess it doesn't really matter.

 

[OhLook]

Congratulations! Pity they cropped the antennae, but I guess it doesn't really matter.

Thank you. They also cropped out the egg she had just laid. Photos in this kind of book are more for identification than anything else.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Thank you. They also cropped out the egg she had just laid. Photos in this kind of book are more for identification than anything else.

Yes indeed.

 

[OhLook]

Ed, for this thread, do you want noninsect arthropods particularly? I have lots of bugs but just one little crayfish, spotted in Golden Gate Park, perhaps an escape from captivity.

 

[Jack Dawe]

Ashy Mining Bee

 

[Jack Dawe]

European Beewolf