An Asilidae aka "Robber Fly" enjoys a meal of a fly in the Panamint Valley, California. April 2021 Note the proboscis stabbed into the back of the fly. It injects a neurotoxin and digestive enzymes. Then it slups up its meal. #panamint #robberfly #nature #brutal #fly #bugs #desert #macro #macromonday
Here's a #MacroMonday post of a Seven-spotted handmaiden moth that was chilling on our window. #Photography #Invertebrates #虫 #Macro #nature
For #MacroMonday, Austin wanted to show you a close-up of his nose.
It's a Small World
You can used extension tubes with a normal lens for macro photography, but if you already have a macro lens and use it with a couple of extension tubes then you get some larger than life shots. The largest of these cups is probably less than 3 millimetres diameter and the shot is not cropped. Focus stacking becomes essential as the depth of field of each layer is a fraction of a millimetre.
You and your fellow springtails are peacefully feeding on organic debris next to a stream when suddenly a dark shape rapidly approaches from beneath a leaf. It's a predatory, semi-aquatic rove beetle of the genus Stenus whose appearance causes the springtails to release their furculas, leaping in random directions to escape. The defeated rove beetle raises its abdomen in frustration and resumes the hunt.
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It's just another #MacroMonday (ooooh-ooohhhhh) 
This is the flower umbel of a California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum).
https://alexander-kunz.pixels.com/featured/california-buckwheat-alexander-kunz.html
It's #macromonday in the planted tanks feat. Rotala wallichii 
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#rotala #rotalawallichii #monday #mondayvibes #plantedtank #plantedaquarium #aquarium #aquariumhobby #aquariumhobbyist #aquascaping #aquascaper #dutchaquascape #dutchaquarium #dutchstyleaquascape
I noticed several tiny bugs skating around on the surface tension of a stream and watched them for a bit. There were three of these Ripple bugs (genus Microvelia) gathered around another insect slurping up its juices with their straws (piercing mouthparts). These are gregarious predatory insects in the suborder Heteroptera.
#Nature #NaturalHistory #Macro #MacroMonday #MacroPhotography #Bugs #Insects
Plants in Space
Geostationary Geranium
Focus stacked composite of 14 images
Here's one for #MacroMonday:
Ice growing more than 10cm out of the ground!
One of the pictures from my recent trip to the US east coast.
It is apparently called #NeedleIce in English:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_ice
Gimme Shelter
Focus stacked image, 20 photos of fungi sheltering under an overhanging log from the rain.
Posting early for: #Monday #MacroMonday #MycologyMonday #Fungi #Fungiverse #Mushtodon #Sporerespondence #Photo #Photography #Yorkshire #FocusStack
Wildlife photography with a 100mm macro lens, not an ideal solution, but it does the job.
Capreolus capreolus
Western Roe Deer
