I spent some time yesterday afternoon playing with the new Olympus 100-400mm f/5.0-6.3 lens. This beast has a 35mm equivalent range of 200-800mm and weighs...
A Western Honey Bee (Apis Mellifera), heavily laden with pollen, on an Indian Blanket flower at Sally Bee’s Honey Company, Dripping Springs, Texas...
A Four-Spotted Palpita Moth (Palpita quadristigmalis) seen on an Indian Blanket near Dripping Springs, Texas on April 28th, 2020. Edit: Thanks to Chuck...
An Eight Spotted Flea Beetle (Omophoita cyanipennis octomaculata) seen in the flower field at Nutty Brown Farm on May 21st, 2020. Thanks to Laura Griffith...
An Eastern Pondhawk dragonfly (Erythemis simplicicollis) seen at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin on Thursday, May 21st, 2020.
This is another of the dragonflies I found at Nutty Brown Farm last Thursday evening. On returning to my computer and trying to identify it, I was most...
I’m back to insects this week after another visit to the flower field at Nutty Brown Farm. Here’s another widow skimmer dragonfly (Libellula...
This will be the last of the macro pictures for a few days though I suspect I’ll be back at the flower field some time in the next week to take more....
A western honey bee (Apis Mellifera) gathers pollen and nectar from an Indian Blanket or Firewheel flower near Dripping Springs, Texas on April 28th, 2020....
A honey bee (Apis Mellifera) seen on a cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm near Dripping Springs, Texas.
I stumbled upon another Bee Assassin bug (Apiomerus spissipes) during Saturday’s visit to Nutty Brown Farm. This one was sitting right on top of a very...
A Common Thread Waisted Wasp (Ammophila procera) seen on a cornflower at Nutty Brown Farm near Dripping Springs, Texas on May 2nd, 2020. A few people have...
I’m going to stay with insect macro photographs this week because I spent a couple of hours yesterday morning in the flower field at Nutty Brown...
A flower patch can be a dangerous place for a busy bee. This one’s day didn’t end well after meeting a Bee Assassin bug (Apiomerus spissipes)...
A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) seen on an Indian Blanket (Gaillardia pulchella) in Dripping Springs, Texas.
I’ll interrupt the planned rodeo theme this week because, believe it or not, I actually took some photos yesterday! I spent the hour before sunset...
One of the signs of the arrival of spring in Texas for me, is the first sighting of a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) butterfly. I’m sure a sighting...
We’re just back from a couple of days’ museum hopping in Houston. One of the museums we visited was the fantastic Houston Museum of Natural...
Selvatura Park near Monteverde, Costa Rica proved to be a fantastic place to visit during our trip last week. Among the various attractions there is a beautiful,...
There are, apparently, 22 different species of insect known as “Paper Wasps” in North America and I must admit that I didn’t spend the time...
