2014 Archives - Page 3 of 6 - Insect Week

Male Blue Tiger Butterfly With Tiger Moth Caterpillar on Crotalaria Pods

This photograph of an adult butterfly and a moth caterpillar on a legume pod was taken in a botanical garden in Howrah in early April 2014.

Lunchtime

This wood ant (Formica sp.) has captured a small millipede on vegetation litter near Brno in the Czech Republic.

Sleeping Nomada

A nomad bee (Nomada sp.) at rest on a leaf. This is a focus stack of 20 pictures taken with the camera on a tripod with a focus rail, plus flash and a white reflector

Large Rose Sawfly Laying Eggs

This large rose sawfly, Arge pagana, was laying eggs on a rose bush by the photographer’s front door. Anthony Cooper observed it as it gradually worked its way down the stem, moving slightly between each insertion of its ovipositor to lay the next egg.

Resting Time

A swallowtail caterpillar amongst dune vegetation at Dunas de Mira in Portugal. João Petronilho used a tripod and flash for this well-composed and atmospheric picture.

Parental Care

A female burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, feeds pre-digested meat to one of her larvae.

Even educated weevils do it!

Weevils mating (carefully) in the Amazonian rainforest. Claire Waring saw these weevils on a log beside the path at the start of a night-time ‘bug-hunt’ in Ecuador. Fascinated by their long elbowed antennae and their even more elongate snouts.

A Katydid Completes Its Moult

A katydid completes its moult in the Amazonian rainforest. Claire Waring photographed this night-time emergence in the early hours of the morning when she was on a ‘bug-hunt’ in the forest.

Mate

A pair of bombyliid bee-flies (Toxophora iavana) mating in a garden in Bogor, West Java.

Dromedarius

An unusual view of the larva of a prominent moth (Notodonta sp.) found on an alder tree in the photographer’s garden in Genemuiden.