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Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day)

Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies are all beautiful up close, even the scary looking ones.

Featured Work

Common Blue Damselfly by David Lewins

The most common of British Damselflies, this one was photographed at Cragside in Northumberland in the company of Steve Smith
A Bug's Life by Renee Hubbard Fine Art Photography

Extreme macro of a tiny rainbow beetle
Deinopis subrufa (Net Casting Spider) #3 by Dennis Gay

The Location: / A very tight, isolated corner at the rear of my home in Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia. The Subject: / Seemingly suspended in mid-air this marvellous specimen of a female Deinopis subrufa (Net Casting Spider) was all set up with her net for a night’s hunting when I found her just before sunset on a very grey, damp summer day. / The spider’s location and orientation made it extremely difficult for me to make a good shot but with some patience, perseverance and experimentation using the fence post to brace the camera, I finally made a couple of shots for my collection. / The shot was made looking down at an angle with the camera rotated to the portrait format so as to end up with the subject’s orientation in the shot.. / The ambient light reflecting back from the white fence post gave the subject a beautiful modelling light. The Making of Deinopis subrufa (Net Casting Spider) #3: / Fuji S9600: Macro mode, Manual settings of f/3.6 @ 1/50sec, Manual focus, ISO80, Hand held. / Lightroom 1.1 & Photoshop CS3. Visit the Insects & Spiders collection in my BubbleSite Gallery for more eight legged critters. UPDATE: 22-01-09 / This lovely spider has been featured in the Arachnids Group . UPDATE: 24-04-09 / My net casting Arachnid took out 1st Prize in the 99th Annual Wauchope Show’s Photography Competition in the Fauna – Colour section. UPDATE: 30-05-09 / This acrobatic arachnid has been featured in the All That is Nature Group. UPDATE: 9-7-09 / My suspended Spider has been featured in the Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies Group. UPDATE: 9-7-09 / Mrs Deinopis has been featured in the Colour and Light Group. Enjoy! SPIDERS / (Click the links!) Deinopis subrufa / Argiope keyserlingi / Diaea evanida / Diaea evanida & Apis mellifera / Diaea evanida & Apis mellifera / Diaea evanida / Araneus bradleyi / Nephila plumipes / Nephila plumipes / Nephila plumipes / Tetragnatha sp /
Spikey by John Spies

This colourful creature was devouring rose leaves in my garden in northwest Thailand. I was fascinated by the way its spikes went through balls of water. I love meniscus.
Rocket LadyBug (Collectors etd.) by alford

Up up and away! Featured in: Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies Yay! Thanks guys appreciated!
Looking around the corner by Hans Bax

This bumble bee was scared away by another one on the same flower…. Used camera: Canon Powershot S3 IS
Triple Header ! by robkal

Due to the exhorbitant price of World Series tickets , these 3 friends decide to chip in and share a box seat ! (Windsor, CT.)
redback spider by justrick

redback spider,(latrodectus mactans hasselti) this spider needs to be given serious respect, has a very nasty bite, hides under every thing that has a dark area / flower pots, tin cans, cars, loves garden sheds. this spider is known to cause death in rare cases. its venom contains neurotoxins that works slowly its bite / is immediately painfull to the whole affected limb, sweating, headache vomitting and nausea, adominal pain,pyrexia,hypertension, can be treated with redback anti-venom. best left well alone this one.indeed found in western australia
A Long Way Down by Jenni77

I found this cute little snail on some flowers that I picked, his shell is about 6mm long…...sooo cute! Taken with my new camera, which I love already! / I got the same Zuiko macro lens Make: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP. / Model: E-510 / Shutter Speed: 1/100 second / F Number: F/10.0 / Focal Length: 35 mm / ISO Speed: 100
Bright Beetle by Renee Hubbard Fine Art Photography

Macro image – Summer 2009
Bugged! by Jane Marin

An unknown bug on the grass after a storm! / / Featured in “Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies” Group June 2009

Recent Work

Bigger than sand.... by Hans Bax

A super macro shot of a very small insect (I don’t know its name), a little bit bigger than a grain of sand, busy on the terrace in our back-yard. Used camera: Canon Powershot S3 IS
Bee Happy! by bevanimage

Winter in Melbourne. A day that started very cold (-1 celsius) but sunny. Contemplating the stupidity that is work. What to do? Commune with the bees and flowers in the garden, of course! So I did. Even in winter the Grevilleas still flower, and the bees were out in force. / This is Grevillea “Superb”, and the bee obviously thinks so too! / Hope you enjoy it. / Best viewed large. Nikon D300 / Nikkor 105mm f2.8 AF macro lens / hand held
Grasshopper by DStwrtPhotos

DStwrt Photography
Lil' friend... by valzart

...popped out between showers for a breath of fresh air & there was my lil’ friend agen lol!..gettin’ to love this lil’ guy.captured him@Norfolk Broads UK….zip a dee doo dah ...Save the Insects ... As is straight out of the camera Olymous 35/30 DPi 314 f-stop 4.6 ISO-100 .....
Happy bee...honey for tea.. by valzart

..poking my nose into macro-land again and heard this little buzzing noise..lo and behold here is the culprit…buzzily buzzing away in an ecstasy of nectar at the Norfolk Broads Uk ..the bees are on a sad decline al over the world.. Honey ..NRDC ..Wildlife on the Brink / The Endangered Species Act helps save wildlife pressured by pollution and other dangers. See what’s at stake across the nation.As is straight out of the camera Olympus fe -35/x-30 314 dpi f-stop 4.6 ISO 100 35mm 36 taken at the Norfolk Broads UK.. First photo of a Bee in mactro featured in ‘Earthkeepers’’ ..
Just Landing by Sunflwrconcepts

/ This little guy was just landing on the stem when I snapped the picture.
Orbweaver by KaneSlater

West Deane Park, Etobicoke, Ontario / 7/9/09
Eastern Amberwing by Rosalie Scanlon

This is a very small dragonfly, in fact this is the first time I have seen one of these. At first I thought it was a hornet LOL. Taken at Lakes Park in Ft. Myers, Florida with my carry around camera the SONY Cybershot
Dinner Time © by Vicki Ferrari

Dinner Time © Vicki Ferrari Dinner Time… for the big spider that scared the bijiggers out of me when it came down from the tree at a million miles an hour to see what it had caught…. / I am surprised that I could stand this close and take the photo, actually, I think I cheated and looked at a long distance through the viewfinder (not easy to do with my camera!).... There are a few in the series and when I stop looking over my shoulder for more spiders, I will put them in! I don’t know what sort of spider he (or she) is apart from the fact that it was fast and big….. I have never seen a spider shoot web out like that! Not 100% clear but the frangipanni is! .... shiver… shake…. spiders… uhhhhh…. / Hope someone out there likes this! Vicki Ferrari Nikon D70 / No photoshop, just as is!
Ol' Blue Eyes by David Lewins

Close-up of a Common Blue Damselfly
Floating by LilMissTinkk

Framed Frames, anyone interested in larger image should leave me a message

About This Group

Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies
Are all beautiful up close,even the scary ones!
Share your Photographs and Artwork within the Insect World

An outline of what Creepy Crawlies are:
Insects of all kinds
Bugs of all kinds
Centipedes and Millipedes
Spiders
Scorpions
Snails and Slugs
Caterpillars
Butterflies and Moths
Crickets and Grasshoppers
Ants
Bees and Wasps

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