#FotoVorschlag “Nahaufnahme Natur // Close-up Nature” #Ants collecting honeydew from #aphids beneath a bramble flower. #Derbyshire, July 2021. #insects #macroPhotography

For #macroMonday - a frog! In a pond! From yesterday - kindly letting me get the macro lens remarkably close... #Derbyshire #frogs #macrophotography #naturePhotography#Derbyshire#macroPhotography#Photomonday

From earlier today, while dodging the rain showers - a Welsh poppy... #Derbyshire #flowers #bloomscrolling #macroPhotography

#FotoVorschlag : Wolken // Clouds - a faintly ridiculous sunset with a bonus #SpaceNeedle at lower left. #Seattle#SpaceNeedle July 2012. #sunsets #clouds

For #saturdaySolitude - the collapsed hulk of a vast robot, perhaps? That, or electrical equipment from the demolition of Convention Place station, #Seattle#saturdaySolitude- August 2018.

Last of the current #jumpingSpiders for #spiderSaturday - those Salticus sp. from last weekend's wall safari... (At some point the weather will warm up again for more bug action! It's currently raining.) #Derbyshire #spiders #macroPhotography

For #spiderSaturday (which is apparently a thing) - more Salticus sp. photos from last weekend's wall safari. (From the 'like' counts, people like these little things even more than bees! And vastly more than other spiders eating bees. Ahem.) #Derbyshire #spiders #jumpingSpiders #macroPhotography

For #insectSaturday / #insekenSamstag - a change from the usual wasps, some #butterflies! Pieris napi - Green-veined White: https://www.naturespot.org/species/green-veined-white Pararge aegeria - Speckled Wood: https://www.naturespot.org/species/speckled-wood #Derbyshire #insects #macroPhotography

Every day's a safari when you go looking for bugs - here's quite a ... cheeky little beetle spotted earlier today. Malachius bipustulatus, Rosy-Arsed Malachite Beetle https://www.naturespot.org/species/common-malachite-beetle #Derbyshire #insects #beetles #macroPhotography

Auspicious for #waspWednesday - I go outside with my camera, and another Dolichovespula media, Median Wasp queen decides to land on my foot, then fall asleep. So terrifying, so fearsome. Ahem. https://www.naturespot.org/species/median-wasp #Derbyshire #insects #wasps #macroPhotography

From 24 years (and two days) ago - from the first day with my first digital camera. Still one of my favourite photos that I've taken - from May 2002. #Derbyshire #beech #woodlands

#silentSunday × #mosstodon

Today's bug from a garden safari - a small moth with absurdly long antennae. In flight, an ethereal, flickering presence - with those antennae waggling around in the sunshine... Adela reaumurella? https://www.naturespot.org/species/adela-reaumurella #Derbyshire #insects #moths #macroPhotography

It's #Bienstag - so have some solitary bees spotted up at Black Rocks, #Cromford at the weekend! Andrena cineraria - Grey mining bee? Lots of little burrows in the sandy path Nomada sp. - Nomad bee, intent on laying eggs in the burrows of the former! #Derbyshire #insects #bees #macroPhotography

I was thinking of cuckoo wasps just earlier - when behold! One on top of an old wall, preening itself in the sunshine. (Thanks to my dad for spotting it!) Small and implausibly sparkly, showing up the limits of my macro skills. Ahem. Chrysis sp.? #Derbyshire #insects #wasps #macroPhotography

Miscellaneous bugs from the past few weeks for #insectSaturday / #insektenSamstag Nomada goodeniana - Gooden's Nomad Bee Unidentified hoverfly Anthocharis cardamines - Orange-tip butterfly Palomena prasina - Common Green Shieldbugs #Derbyshire #insects #bees #hoverflies #butterflies#insects#bees#insektensamstag#hoverflies#insectsaturday#shieldbugs

Bonus #bloomscrolling #bluebells from late last week... #Derbyshire #woodlands

This is now a #bluebells appreciation account. Normal bug service shall resume shortly. (All from the past couple of days!) #bloomscrolling #Derbyshire #woodlands

#FotoVorschlag "Einsamkeit" - "Loneliness / solitude" #Maine, #newengland#maine#FotovorschlagSeptember 2018.

#silentsunday × #bloomScrolling

For #saturdaySolitude - down in the spring woodlands a few days ago, with this year's #bluebells arriving... #bloomscrolling #sporespondence #Derbyshire

For #insectSaturday /#insektenSamstag - bees! Lots of bees! From earlier this week - so many bugs out in the sunshine... Osmia bicornis - Red Mason Bee Andrena cineraria - Grey Mining Bee Bombus pascuorum - Common Carder Bumblebee Nomada sp. - Nomad bee #Derbyshire #insects #bees #macroPhotography

For #thickTrunkTuesday, from the weekend - this year's #bluebells arriving in some beech woodlands... #Derbyshire

From yesterday - a fantastically named Hairy-footed Flower Bee, Anthophora plumipes. (Look at the really long hairs on the lower parts of his front legs!) https://www.naturespot.org/species/hairy-footed-flower-bee #Derbyshire #insects #bees #macroPhotography

More arbitrarily selected bugs from today: Bombylius major, bee-fly Vespula sp., wasp (queen) Bombus terrestris, bumblebee (queen!) Tiny wasp from the Ichneumonoidea? #Derbyshire #insects #bees #bumbebees #wasps #macroPhotography#insects#bees#wasps#MacroMonday

Been busy - but with the spring sunshine this week? Bugs galore! And I finally managed to get some photos of bee-flies - Bombylius major. Cute, round and fluffy? Of *course* they're parasites - lobbing eggs into the nests of solitary bees... #Derbyshire #insects #macroPhotography#insects#flies #beeflies

For #saturdaySignage - from earlier today! An ice cream van complete with the archetypal Slightly Off Disney Characters... Do listen to John Finnemore's take on it - and realise just how accurate he was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lray-9F1WP4 […] [Original post on pixelfed.hylobatidae.org]

#silentSunday × #mosstodon#silentsundayV

In keeping with the Canadian science theme - for #saturdaySolitude, part of the vast old 22MHz 'T' antenna at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, near #Penticton, #BritishColumbia, #Canada#Penticton#saturdaySolitudeAugust 2012.

For #saturdaySignage - I've no idea what event warranted that underlining beneath the 'NO', but it was clearly serious enough... (From the #TRIUMF cyclotron, #VancouverBC, Canada - August 2012.) #physics #signs

For #saturdaySignage - whatever you do, don't! #Nevada side of the #HooverDam, July 2013. #signs#nevada#hooverdam#saturdaySignage#doNot

A somewhat rotten example for #thickTrunkTuesday from #Derbyshire#thickTrunkTuesdaythe other week... (Also testing to see if upgrading Pixelfed has broken anything!)

For #saturdaySignage - some politely aggressive (aggressively polite?) signage from #VancouverIsland, #Canada#vancouverisland#saturdaySignage October 2017. (I have a wide selection of overly polite Canadian signage...)

Today's #lichenSubscribe from #Derbyshire... #lichen #macroPhotography

#Fotovorschlag - 'Negative Space' A model of mine workings at #Jerome, #arizona - from July 2013. #mining #museums

Also for #saturdaySignage - from #CarsingtonWater, #Derbyshire#saturdaySignage#CarsingtonWater March 2025.

I have ... many photos of off-kilter signs, which I've been idly trying to find an excuse to share. So, equipped with the imaginatively alliterative #saturdaySignage hashtag whatsit, here's the first - from #PointReyes, #California back in June 2015... #signs

#FotoVorschlag : 'Im Nirgendwo' / 'In the middle of nowhere' On the approach to the Experimental Breeder Reactor I, somewhere in #idaho#Fotovorschlag..

... and some more miscellaneous #mosstodon from today. (With some bonus #lichensubscribe which didn't fit in the previous post...) #Derbyshire #macroPhotography

Some #Derbyshire #lichensubscribe from earlier today... (Light was pretty terrible, so it was amazing I got so much so sharp and in focus...) #macroPhotography

#FotoVorschlag 'Alles was Fühler hat' / 'Everything that has feelers' A likely Rhagium mordax, the black-spotted longhorn beetle - just after being rescued from Cromford Canal, #Derbyshire - May 2021. https://www.naturespot.org/species/rhagium-mordax #insects #macroPhotography#insects#MacroMonday

Latest wintry photographic theme - overgrown old hedges by the sides of narrow country lanes. Definitely #mosstodon adjacent? #Derbyshire, yesterday...