Favorite summer pictures

Here are my top 3 insect macro pictures throughout the summer :-)

 

Waving bee

Blue butterfly

Bon appétit

Hide and seek

Playing hide and seek with a huge grasshopper ^^ What a shy creature! 

And difficult to spot: green on green is not quite the perfect contrast ;-)

Hesitating

From below

Hello there

Haystacks

Not everyone would enjoy looking at haystacks, yet they always prompt me to take out my camera :-)

Endless haystacks

Photo mash-up #31

Today theme will be: damselflies and dragonflies!

Happy damselfly & dragonfly day :-)

Butterflies

A collection of butterflies - OK the last one is not the cutest of all...

Balance

Blue wings

Vigilance

Apiaceae

The wild carrot is usually home to a huge variety of insects (bugs, beetles, even spiders...) and the white color of its flowers makes it very easy to detect them - simply put, a very good spot for insect photography in Summer :-) 

Have you ever noticed the little pink or dark bit which appears sometimes at the middle of the flower? I have been wandering through the countryside for years and honestly only discovered it now (the macro lens surely helped ^^). 

The carrot plant is also called Queen Anne's lace, because of the flower resembling lace - this pink center part supposedly being a droplet of blood from the Queen's finger after she pricked it on a needle while making the lace... In a more scientific style, it turns out that it attracts bees and other pollinators: the dark spot poses as a fake insect already happily resting on the plant (Nature does things well :-D)

Pink center

Striped wings

Patch of color

Minstrel bugs

With their bright red color - dissuading birds from eating them - those striped bugs could not but catch my eyes...

Out of reach

Symmetry

Suspended

Cute kittens

Awwwwwww!

Fake sleep