Jerusalem Cricket (Ammopelmatus sp.), California
Lance fly, Earomyia melnickae, on death camas
Lance fly, Earomyia melnickae
Meadow death camas with lance fly (Earomyia melnickae)
Hindwing of a female mantis (Stagmomantis limbata)
Green fruit beetle (Cotinus mutabilis); 5-shot stack of a live insect.
Inflated/Spider beetle (Cysteodemus armatus), Mojave Desert, California (4-shot handheld field photo stack)
Antlion, Anza-Borrego Desert, California (2-image handheld field photo stack)
Mayfly exuvia on my kitchen window, California; 5-shot photo stack, exposed for the sunlit shed skin, which rendered the background black and made our dusty window look like a sky full of stars.
Katydid sp., cloud forest near Mindo, Ecuador
Harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus), Ecuadorian cloud forest. These huge beetles are practically an ecosystem unto themselves; they harbor many mites and pseudoscorpions on and under their elytra. 2-image handheld stack of the beetle where found.
Fairy Wasp (I think Gonatocerus sp.), about 1.5 mm long, laying eggs through a leaf to parasitize leafhopper eggs on the othe side.
Longhorn Beetle (Lophopogonius crinitus)
Sphinx Moth Smerinthus astarte, Montana
Sulphur butterfly on Potentilla
Ponderosa Pine Seedworm Moth, Cydia piperana
Male Perdita Sp. Bee, Mojave Desert
Jumping Bristletail, Mojave Desert
