Summer Insects

Here are some insects from last July and August.

great spangled fritillary (June)

Japanese beetle on hyssop (focus stack of 4 images)

large milkweed bug on milkweed (focus stack of 6 images)

male ebony jewelwing, a damselfly

northeastern hammertail, a robber fly (focus stack of 5 images)

Is it just me, or does this ant have transparent rings in its abdomen? (focus stack of 2 images)

immature large milkweed bug on milkweed (focus stack of 5 images)

twice-stabbed stink bugs on hyssop (focus stack of 4 images)

Zethus spinipes, a wasp, on celosia

A couple of flyers

This 17-year cicada was on the wall of a ticket building at the Columbus Zoo, and a damselfly was in my back yard on a forsythia bush. There were no cicadas at my house. Which is fine.

I wonder if this member of cicada Brood X spent some time in a spiderweb. Notice the light-colored diagonal line about as far behind the eyes as where the wings are attached.

There's schmutz on the outstretched wingtip.

 

There's what might be a web strand attached to the tip of the wing.

I shot the cicada with my macro lens and was maybe six inches from the bug. The lens is my hammer, and I am looking for nails. One nail is a certain gecko which is at the center of a project that so far is not going well.

But who needs a macro lens when there's a zoom lens extended to 300mm and a photographer standing three feet away from the subject?

ebony jewelwing, male

Look at this picture and the next one on a big screen or zoom in to see what look like long hairs on the legs.