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Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies are all beautiful up close, even the scary looking ones.

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Mother & Child by Jason Asher

Featured in Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art – November 2009 / Featured in Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies – November 2009 Here’s another shot of a Northern Green Jumping Spider – the largest jumpers in Australia. This time a female, with her precious young cradled beneath. Shot on the 27th of October 2009 in Brisbane, Australia, with a Canon 450d and a 70-300 is usm telephoto and 68mm of stacked extension tubes. Shutter: 1/60th (fired built-in flash +2) / Aperture: f/20 / ISO: 200 My Images Do NOT Belong To The Public Domain. All images are copyright © Jason Asher. All Rights Reserved. Copying, saving, downloading, altering, displaying or redistribution of any of these images without written permission from the artist is strictly prohibited. Non-compliance with these term(s) WILL result in legal action.
Side Burn! - Lions Mane by Voltaire Carlos

Canon 5D Mk2 65 MPE Macro @ 5X Ringlite Flash Handeheld ISO 400 F9 1/200 sec Cronulla NSW Most of us have probably heard that the world’s bee population is declining – from Britain to New Zealand and throughout the United States, crops and wildflowers are being affected by this issue. Recently, scientists have had success in treating parasitic infection in bee hives, giving us new hope in halting the decline. From wikipedia’s entry on pollinators: “Millions of hives of honey bees are contracted out as pollinators by beekeepers, and honey bees are by far the most important commercial pollinating agents, but many other kinds of pollinators, from bluebottle flies, to bumblebees, orchard mason bees, and leaf cutter bees are cultured and sold for managed pollination.” You can choose to become a beekeeper, perhaps by taking a beekeeping school course in your area, and becoming licensed to keep bees. There are lots of resources online with information for beginning beekeepers, places to buy beekeeping equipment, and forums in which you can post questions about bees. As a bonus, if you raise honey bees, the local pollen in the honey can help relieve allergies, however you may want to use caution in eating local honey. Helping the bees out might be enough reason to take up the hobby, but another good reason is to help your garden flourish. Perhaps keeping bees yourself is just more work or time than you care to invest. There are other ways to contribute as well. Maybe you can host a hive for another beekeeper. Or, you can choose to provide environments that need less maintenance like a bumblebee nest box, which you can build (easier to build a bumblebee box in the US, as most places to purchase seem to be in UK) or just purchase a bumblebee home. Another common bee you can host is the mason bee – there are starter kits available, as well as other more attractive mason bee houses. Finally, even if you don’t choose to host any bees in your space, you can provide a bee-friendly garden. Bees are attracted to blue, purple, yellow and white. Old-fashion shrubs with nectar-rich blossoms like lilac, honeysuckle and azalea are bee magnets. Heirloom flowers like cosmos, zinnia, aster and daisies lure them with the promise of pollen. Herbs such as mint, hyssop, salvia, lavender and thyme are covered with bees during bloom time. Select a variety of flowers which will bloom at different times throughout the year for a steady supply of nectar and pollen. There’s a wealth of bee-friendly options, so finding plants that work with your existing garden shouldn’t be too hard.
robber fly profile by janko

the composition ain’t very spectacular, but i wanted to get a nice sideshot with as many detail as possible. Seemed to work out. Fascinating to see all those muscles on such a small creature (though it’s a rather big fly in comparison to other flies)
Cinch Bug in Summer Snazz.. by deborah zaragoza

/ Cinch Bug in Summer Snazz / FEATURED _in the following groups / Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies / Found this cute little guy in my backyard and waited for 20 minutes for him to open those cool wings to show off that great body ! Fort Worth, TX
Dragonfly by Gouzelka

Garden visitor. / Englewood, Florida / Nikon D3x / Lens 105mm /
On duty by naiyer

Camera: Nikon D60 / Lense: Tamron 70-300 / Exposure: 0.003 sec (1/320) / Aperture: f/7.1 / Focal Length: 195 mm / ISO Speed: 400
Building their nest by caroleann1947

Some wasps that have set up housekeeping in my rose bush
PREDATORY BUSH CRICKET by DilettantO

Digital artwork created for a WWF FDC envelope
READY FORE TAKE OF by JOHAN (photowalker) NIJENHUIS

BEST SEEN IN LARGE VIEW PHOTO MADE AT :Europe’s largest Butterfly Valley

Recent Work

Small Scale Farming by Karen Zimmerman

Argentine ant harvesting honeydew excretions from ornate scale insects. / There is a small clear ball of honeydew in the ant’s mandibles.
Blatella Orientalis, The Oriental Cockroach by Pete Janes

Characterized by a steely blue-black exoskeleton, this roach has colonized every place on Earth where humans live, come and go. A lot of my fascination with insects revolves around the structure and reflectivity of insect wings and exoskeletons. This illustration was originally published in BackHome Magazine, 1993.
I See You There by sternbergimages

Jumping Spider / Phidippus audax Jumping spiders are bold daytime hunters with acute vision. The spiders leap onto their prey and overpower it. It is a common predator of many crop pests, including boll weevils, spotted cucumber beetles, bollworms, cotton leaf worm, fall webworm, cotton fleahopper, lygus bugs, stink bugs, three-cornered alfalfa hoppers, leafhoppers, sorghum midges, mosquitoes. / This species varies in size and color but average around 0.5 inch long. The spiders are mostly black, and typically the top of the abdomen has a rather large white to red central spot and a pair of smaller posterior spots. The chelicerae are metallic green. Juveniles often have orange abdominal spots that turn white at maturity. / Phidippus audax is a grassland and prairie species, but it is also found in open woodland, old fields, gardens, and around and in homes. The species is widespread from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States to Washington, New Mexico and eastern Mexico. It has been introduced into Southern California and Hawaii. It winters as subadults, matures and mates in the spring, and produces egg sacs under bark of logs in the summer. Taken at Pritchard Park in Racine, WI / Using a Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd / ISO- 100 / Aperture- f/4.0 / Exposure- 1/320
Owl Butterfly Up Close by Keld Bach

An Owl Butterfly (Caligo eurilochus) shot at the Tropical House, Copenhagen Zoo. You can see a larger version here EXIF data: / Model: NIKON D300 / Shutter Speed: 1/250 second / Aperture: F/9.0 / Focal Length: 105 mm + 36mm extension tube / ISO Speed: 200
Common Blue by Nigel Kendall

Dolebury Warren, Somerset.
Are You Looking At Me Little Jumping Spider? by sternbergimages

Jumping Spider / Phidippus audax Jumping spiders are bold daytime hunters with acute vision. The spiders leap onto their prey and overpower it. It is a common predator of many crop pests, including boll weevils, spotted cucumber beetles, bollworms, cotton leaf worm, fall webworm, cotton fleahopper, lygus bugs, stink bugs, three-cornered alfalfa hoppers, leafhoppers, sorghum midges, mosquitoes. / This species varies in size and color but average around 0.5 inch long. The spiders are mostly black, and typically the top of the abdomen has a rather large white to red central spot and a pair of smaller posterior spots. The chelicerae are metallic green. Juveniles often have orange abdominal spots that turn white at maturity. / Phidippus audax is a grassland and prairie species, but it is also found in open woodland, old fields, gardens, and around and in homes. The species is widespread from southeastern Canada and the eastern United States to Washington, New Mexico and eastern Mexico. It has been introduced into Southern California and Hawaii. It winters as subadults, matures and mates in the spring, and produces egg sacs under bark of logs in the summer. Taken at Pritchard Park in Racine, WI / Using a Fujifilm Finepix S1000fd / ISO- 100 / Aperture- f/4.0 / Exposure- 1/320
Polka-dotted Wasp Moth by May Lattanzio

A day-flying moth, slightly over an inch long. Appears black until the sun hits it and then it turns metallic blue. / The red tip on the posterior is a warning to predators. / Though it mimics a wasp, it is totally harmless; a nectaring moth. Here it is in Bidens alba. It also loves to nectar in goldenrod. It is know also as the Oleander Moth, and its host plant for the caterpillars is the Oleander. http://www.killerplants.com/renfields-garden/20031008.asp Bayou George, FL. Sony w50
Female flower spider by Colin12

This spider was waiting for a meal on a Cornus flower. / 1:1 macro, so not a very large spider by any means. / Photographed in a garden in the blue mountains NSW Australia.
Writing

VOLCANOES? I DON'T THINK SO!…I thought this might amuse you all. After all the lovely comments you have been making recently regarding my work, I just thought I shoul…

I thought this might amuse you all. After all the lovely comments you have been making recently regarding my work, I just thought I should illustrate that I too, make mistakes! It concerns a specific work of mine but applies to all of them and describes a situation most professionals, be they painters or photographers will probably have encountered themselves. / You might remember / this design / You might also remember me telling you it took a fair while to paint that background? / Well, guess what? I just found out from the zoologist in Switzerland who vets all the WWF artwork, that it is the WRONG location! It shows volcanic Polynesia, not the coral islands of the Maldives! Okay, they sent me the ref pic that showed this scene, but didn’t say ‘Don’t use this background’ and so, I did, simply because it looked so dramatic. It did cross my mind, however. that it was possibly not correct, but did it anyway for the heck of it! What I SHOULD have done was Google ‘Maldives/Images’ and looked for this specific location and I soon would have realised that The Maldives looked nothing like that photo…but I didn’t! Anyway, at least he loved the whales, if not the volcanoes!!! / Cautionary tale or what? / Anyway, I will now strip out thosevolcanoes and paint a coral atoll instead! Now, before RB came into my life (and changed it in SO MANY amazing ways) I might have been a bit miffed at my own stupidity, but now I realise that although technically incorrect, in respect of The Maldives, the art is still valid and therefore I can leave it for sale on RB simply as a pleasing image. In any event, I’m sure Melon-Headed Whales are seen all over the Southern Hemisphere and so it’s quite possible they are seen off Polynesia as they appear in my artwork, So I suppose it could almost be a ‘collector’s item’ and may make it more saleable! I will correct the art over the weekend and post it here when finished for you to see just how wrong I got it!

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