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245d

Tiny baubles.

📍 Irvine, California
🗓️ December 17, 2025
📷 Sony a7iii, Olympus Zuiko 50mm f/3.5 Macro with Extension Tube 25

#photography #macro #macrophotography #droplets #vintagelens #vintagelenses

Water droplets on grass stems with a blurred green background, reflecting light and creating small rainbows.

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A close-up of slender grass stems with numerous droplets of water clinging to them.

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Close-up of dew droplets on grass blades with a green blurred background.

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48d

Had a lovely visitor to the garden the other day👇.

Haven't posted much lately. Been really busy, my big lens in on the fritz, & I'm getting ready for back surgery this fall so my posts/replies will be sporadic.

#insects #butterflies #wildlife #nature #MacroPhotography #photography #AltText

Closeup photograph of a yellow eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly grasping a pink bee balm floret with out of focus bee balm flowers and green foliage in the background. The butterfly takes up most of the right center frame. It is grasping a floret with its legs, its body is hanging downward, and its proboscis is inserted into the same floret down while facing the flower with its wings open leaving its back, the back of its head, and the back of its wings visible. Eastern tiger swallowtail butterflies have yellow wings with black edging, short black vertical stripes near the wing top, yellow and black veining, black edges along the sides and bottom of their wings with yellow scallop-shaped spotting and small metallic-blue and orange spots near the bottom-center of the wings, black bodies and heads covered in fine hairs, yellow stripes along either side of the back and head, large black compound eyes, two long, black antennae, and six black, segmented legs, and a long black proboscis used for probing the interiors of flower for nectar.

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165d

#SilentSunday #MacroPhotography #Mushrooms #Fungi

A single mushroom with a wide cap grows out of a wall of moss, bending its stalk upward to keep its top flat

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120d

#macrophotography #macro #makromittwoch #ladybug #insects #flowers #photography

Macro photograph of a red ladybug with black dots on its back and a black and white head, resting on the outside and bottom of the bud of a bright yellow crocus flower, in the middle of its green, thread-like leaves.

Photographie macro d'une coccinelle rouge avec des points noirs sur son dos et une tête noire et blanche, posée à l'extérieur et sur le bas du bouton d'une fleur de crocus jaune vif, au milieu de ses feuilles vertes et filiformes.

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117d

#macro #macrophotography #birds #birdsofmastodon #hummingbird #photography

Macro photograph of the beautiful metallic green plumage on the back of a ruby-throated hummingbird, showing purplish reflections on the folded wing feathers.

Photographie macro du magnifique plumage vert métallique sur le dos d'un colibri à gorge rubis, montrant des reflets violacés sur les plumes des ailes repliées.

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111d

Red barrenwort - Fleur des elfes (Epimedium × rubrum)

#bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening #macro #macrophotography #photography

Macro photograph of a pendulous flower of epipedium, with four red sepals and four greenish-yellow petals, with the pistil and stamens covered with yellow pollen coming out of the center. Other flowers and reddish-green foliage are blurred in the background.

Photographie macro d'une fleur pendante d'epipedium, avec quatre sépales rouges et quatre pétales jaune verdâtre, avec le pistil et les étamines couvertes de pollen jaune sortant du centre. D'autres fleurs et du feuillage vert rougeâtre sont flous en arrière-plan.

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50d

At-home macro experiments: Number 4 🔎

An exploration of natural light, close up compositions and meditative editing.

📷 iPhone
💻 Photmator

#macro #macrophotography #naturephotography #photography #shotoniphone

A close up macro shot of a small bunch of dried sycamore seed pods.

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109d

#silentsunday #bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening #macrophotography #macro #photography

Macro photograph of a creeping phlox flower, its five petals with a tick at their tips, greenish-white with a mauve blue wash on their surface, two small dark blue spots near the center on each, forming a blue circle surrounding the opening through which two intense orange stamens emerge. Drops of rainwater shine on the surface of the petals. The background is dark green and with a few purple flower buds still closed.

Photographie macro d'une fleur de phlox rampant, ses cinq pétales avec une coche à leur extrémité, blanc verdâtre avec un lavis bleu mauve à leur surface, deux petites taches bleu foncé près du centre sur chacun, formant un cercle bleu entourant l'ouverture par où sortent deux étamines d'un orange intense. Des goutes d'eau de pluie brillent sur la surface des pétales. L'arrière-plan est vert foncé et avec quelques boutons de fleurs mauve encore fermés.

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102d

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Macro photograph of drops of water in the long green hairs with a pinkish tip covering a pulsatilla flower, in front of a white background.

Photographie macro de gouttes d'eau dans les longs poils verts à la pointe rosée couvrant une fleur de pulsatille, devant un fond blanc.

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175d

Surreal day

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1h

Beware flying murderbots!

Actually, there have been far fewer yellow-legged or Asian hornets (Vespa velutina; 🇩🇪 Asiatische Hornisse) this year than last – this is my first since April, while regular European hornets have been common.

Still, always a little chilling to see these invasive predators.

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A picture of a hornet in flight seen almost side-on against a background of out-of-focus green ivy. The hornet has a yellow-red head with a black mouth, red compound eyes, and reddish antennae. The thorax is predominantly black, with some fine hairs on top. The abdomen is a mix of black and yellow on the various tergites and sternites, with fine hairs visible on the underside. The legs are dark at the top, but characteristically yellow in the lower sections. The wings are dark amber clear.

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A more head-on view of the same hornet, showing the yellow-reddish and black face in more details, along with the yellow legs dangling below as it flies.

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10d

I forgot to put something to show the scale of these poppy heads. They are tiny, small than my pinky fingernail. I have so many of these and have been crumbling them all over the garden. Fingers crossed there will be so many poppies everywhere next year.

#BloomScrolling #SilentSunday #BadPhotography #macrophotography

A sepia toned macro shot of dry poppy heads, and a few tiny black seeds spilling out. They are laying on a tissue and you can clearly see the spiky hairs on the dried stalks.

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76d

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Macro photograph of raindrops seen beneath a green canna leaf streaked with white parallel veins. The sun shines through the leaf, tracing a dark outline around each droplet. Some areas are in focus, others are not. The effect is very luminous.

Photographie macro de gouttes de pluie vues au-dessous d'une feuille verte de canna striée de veines blanches parallèles. Le soleil traverse la feuille et trace un contour foncé à chaque goutte. Des zones sont au focus et d'autres non. L'effet est très lumineux.

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73d

Belgium, Wemmel : Comma (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Polygon c-album ) #belgium #wemmel #beverbos #insect #entomology #comma #butterfly #macrophotography

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141d

White-jawed jumping spider waiting to pounce

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Photo of a spider on a curved spring leaf. The spider has a long body with three brown spots along the back and an orange face with a pair of large, front-facing eyes.

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60d

Murder muppet

Ambush bug, just hanging around on a daisy for no reason at all and definitely not planning bug crimes

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Close-up photo of a weird looking bug clinging to the yellow part of a daisy. It's dark brown and pale green, and all bumpy and lumpy, with big raptorial forelegs and pink compound eyes that look perpetually surprised and kind of goofy. Don't let that fool you though, because this bug loves to do MURDER.

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10d

How YOU doin? Lil homie just chilling on a leaf all casual lol.

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A macro photo of a green cricket casually lounging on a leaf against a black background

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8d

Hi

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Close-up photo of a periodical cicada head from above. The head is black with delicate gold fuzz and has a weird little pointy "face". There are two large red googly eyes, one each side of the head. In the center of the top of the head are three small red simple eyes arranged in a downward pointing triangle. It has antennae that extend from its face kind of like a Salvador Dali mustache. The big googly eyes appear to be staring directly into your soul.

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7d

When the larger arthropods refuse to come out & play, attention turns to the tinier garden creatures 🕵️‍♂️

This small sap or pollen beetle is in genus Cychramus, most likely C luteus, the Brauner Glanzkäfer in 🇩🇪

True to its name, it was making the most of the goldenrod before I picked it up.

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A small beetle seen from above, making its way through the light coloured hairs on the back of my freckled hand. The beetle is a lighter amber brown up front, on the head and thorax, with black compound eyes and antennae that end in small black "petals". The surface of the head and thorax is dimpled, with fine light hairs on the sides of the latter. The abdomen is darker brown, again with light hairs along the slide of a dimpled body. There is quite a lot of yellow pollen on the beetle.

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The same beetle on some yellow goldenrod flowers. It is mostly seen from behind and the side, showing the darker chestnut brown abdomen with the fine dimples and light hairs. The legs are also brown.

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A more side-on picture of the beetle on the flowers again, also showing the thorax in a bit more detail.

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6d

Look, ma – it's my shadow!

This jumping spider was patrolling the ivy where many insects are flying today.

ObsIdentify is 100% sure that it's Evarcha falcata, but I'm siding with iNaturalist's 98.4% confidence that it's Carrhotus xanthogramma (🇩🇪 Wipfelspringer) – females come in many colour forms.

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The same spider seen from above, showing the contrast in colour between the prosoma (different shades of brown with some darker patterning now visible) and the opisthosoma (a more uniform red-brown with small dark markings at the base of the long, fine, black hairs, but only slight banding patterns otherwise). Overall, the legs more resemble the prosoma in colouration.

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The same spider seen from in front, with the classic jumping spider curious stare from its two central large eyes and the smaller side pair. Those are slightly out-of-focus, while the palps covered in white hairs are better seen. The many dark hairs poking up from the top of the prosoma, giving the spider its punk look, are also partly visible, but out of focus.

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6d

Sorry – awful photos, but the only way I could get them was by holding the camera high above my head & semi-blindly tapping on the fold-out screen to take a shot 🙄

But still worth sharing, IMO, as they show a male Dexia vacua, a tachnid fly species that's very rare except, it seems, in my garden 🤷‍♂️🙂

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A long-legged fly standing on a green ivy leaf, seen from behind and above. The focus is on the fly's wings and tapering abdomen, where each tergite is banded in light brown, medium brown, and black, with many small black hairs. There are also lots of larger black bristles, and a clear indication that this is Dexia vacua, not the much more Dexiosoma caninum is that there are strong bristles in the middle of the tergites, not just at the edges. Similarly, the wing venation confirms the ID: the median vein extends from the horizontal m-cu vein further than the remaining distance from its end to the trailing edge of the wing. The median vein appendix is also short, as required. The rest of the fly is out of focus, but a light brown colour is seen on the thorax and dark red compound eyes are seen beyond.

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5d

Spurges are generally pretty weird in my opinion, and the aptly-named Beetle Spurge (Euphorbia eriantha) justly earns a spot in the top part of the list.

Maybe it's alien and should be called UFOrbia? 😅

Photographed in southern Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California.

#FlowerFriday #Flowers #NativePlants #SouthernCalifornia #Desert #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #CloseUp #Macro #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #SanDiego #AnzaBorrego #Euphorbia #Spurge #Euphorbiaceae #Herbs #FloralFriday #FlowersOnFriday #Weird #StrangePlants

Close-up photo of an annual herb in the spurge family with long and thin, slightly hairy magenta-colored leaves and white hairy fruit capsules that look a lot like beetles.

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4d

One of my favourite WTF😱 insects seen earlier today.

It's a buffalo treehopper (Stictocephala bisonia; 🇩🇪 Büffelzikade).

And although bison are native in Europe as well as North America, this namesake isn't – it's an invasive species which first arrived from over the pond around a century ago.

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A small insect seen on some green leaves. The view is more or less head on, showing the peculiar large flat face which tapes back into a triangle over the top, and into two horns, one on each side. The insect is mostly green in this view with dimpling on its face, while the edges of the face and the horns are yellow with red and black tips. The insect has black and grey compound eyes on either side of its head and two smaller red ocelli between them. The back can't be seen well, but tapers into clear wings. The insect has green legs which turn orange at the end.

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4d

Spider fans – I need your help!

This tiny one is a juvenile orb weaver, but despite the apparently distinctive pattern of spots and patches, I can't make a good genus-level ID, let alone species 😱

Some common features with each of Araniella, Enoplognatha, & Mangora, but nothing definitive.

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A small spider seen from above and to one side, sitting in the middle of its web. The spider is mostly yellow green, including the prosoma and legs, while the back of the opisthosoma is textured brown with pairs of yellow-green patches between, all bordered by five distinct black spots on each side.

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3d

Spotted this tiny ~2mm leafhopper this afternoon with a pretty colour scheme.

Likely subgenus Neoaliturus, but a species ID would need a genital examination 🍆

The most "common" in DE (26 observations on iNat) is N fenestratus (🇩🇪 Trauerzirpe), but N guttulatus or v rare N albilacustris are possible.

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A very small leafhopper seen side on on a green leaf. The overall colour of the head, pronutum, and wings is black, but with many small and larger spots in light yellow, white, and light blue, especially towards the end of the wings. The legs are black at the top, more amber below, with many white spines. The eyes are a deep crimson red.

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The same leafhopper seen from above, showing the transverse yellow "wrinkles" on the pronutum, three yellow dots on the scutellum, and then a symmetric pattern of three pairs of blue-white spots down the ridge of the wings, with a window pattern of larger blue-white patches framed in black further along the wings. There are patches of blue on the wings too.

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