Monday, September 6, 2021

Bugs on milkweed

A few milkweed plants came over the back fence to my yard.

This picture is not so great, but what struck me is the little bug on the leaf. The caterpillar is a monarch, and we've never had one reach the pupa stage.

You might think there's something fake about this picture, or that it was made in a studio because of the uniform background. The background is the brick front of my house, and it's so out-of-focus that we get the color but lose the brick pattern. In the previous shot, the blue is from a window shutter.

For some reason, I have a very hard time getting good shots of bees.

Some kind of milkweed bug, maybe.

Some kind of fly.


All shots are macro except the bee. I have a number of macro shots of bees, but they're crummy.

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