2014 Archives - Page 5 of 6 - Insect Week

Tachinid fly

Tachinid fly, Athrycia cinerea

Grasshopper nymphs

Two nymphs of the painted (or gaudy) grasshopper Poekilocerus pictus on roadside vegetation at Dediyapada in Vadodara district, Gujarat state.

My annoying housemate

Extreme close-up of the head of a bluebottle fly (Calliphora vomitoria). This photograph is composed of a focus-stack of 250 images

Warming up

A bee photographed on a cold but sunny early morning in April, in the photographer’s back garden.

Blend in to survive

A grasshopper (Lobosceliana sp., family Pamphagidae) hiding among the forest leaf-litter in East Mongu.

Warming up, the light giver

A firefly spreading its wings ready to fly while generating light

Manganese Drill Bit

A female ichneumon wasp drills into wood with her ovipositor.

Male Feather-Horned Beetle

Portrait of a male feather-horned beetle, Rhipicera sp., seen in mid-April 2014 at Little Carine Swamp

Alone in the Dark

A lone cockroach hiding between plant stalks in the photographer’s garden. Jose Ramos located the cockroach by torchlight (flashlight) when he was looking for insects to photograph in his garden at night.

Sawflies Eating a Birch Leaf

Sawflies eating a birch leaf