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Love these guys, very stylish.

Suborder: Apocrita
Could I narrow it down further? Yes, will I? No.

To catch up somewhat on my backlog of bug photos I won't spend ages trying to pinpoint the species on every image, IDing this as a cranefly will do just fine.

Diptera, Nematocera, Tipuloidea

I accidentally forgot about this account, whoops. I really hope we get drafts soon so I can prepare posts ahead of time

Pictured: Aglais urticae

Thank you!

I've used two kinds for my phones, one I made myself from an old compact camera (you pick it apart and steal the lens inside) the other is a set with macro, fisheye and a tele lens you screw on a clip-on. Unfortunately I don't know what brand. It was just advertised as phonelens kit at a local store

They're very lovely spiders to spot, I'm sure you'll see plenty more of them if you just have an eye out now that you got a new allotment place.

I just posted a photo of an M. vatia as well and when I took it I did the exact same thing! Stopped to shoot the bee and as I got my camera up I noticed the spider. They have such amazing camouflage!

Another female Thomisidae but this time it's Misumena vatia, the flower crab spider.

It's impressive how big of a prey spiders can catch, this one snatched a bee that's bigger than her!

Sometimes you're just incredibly lucky with being in the right spot at the right time!

Those are some awesomely vivid colours! What a neat millipede

Glad I could help!

Not sure if you've already figured it out but you can! Hold the profile icon in the corner at the bottom and it'll let you switch!

In case it wasn't yours I wanted to make sure you knew someone was stealing your content.

Is this your account?

Images from 2022 of a harlequin lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis), an invasive species over here but still a pretty bug to look at.

What great photos you take! Might I ask what equipment you're using?

I've run into these guys, maybe thrice in my life, and each one has been more than keen to bite at me. Funny little dudes, always great to see one

She's a friend (I promise!)

An ant (presumed Formica sp) spotted during my walk today. Pretty cool creatures to just observe wandering about

Very odd, could be users that just like stuff to chase likes in return and not caring if it's blank, or it's something else I'm too unqualified to understand. I'm using an Android phone for reference in case it has something to do with that. Try reporting the issue to bsky maybe?

It's just a black image for me. Maybe it's a formatting issue, have you tried capturing a screenshot of the image you want to post and see if that works?

Cylindroiulus caeruleocinctus, a millipede in the Julidae family

Ironically, it looks just like a punsch-roll pastry! But then I guess the defence of looking bright and dangerous doesn't really work much on humans anyway, we like the fun colours and shapes.

Super!

A bee (Anthophila), because I'm not confident enough to narrow it down further with only this image to go on

Late to the party but politely asking if I may be added to this as well, if there's any spots left? I'm all about bugs!

Don't mention it! It's just fun being able to share the knowledge I've picked up with someone

A crab spider (Thomisidae) meticulously deflating a larva as a meal

Unidentified Xysticus sp

A good way to tell some isopods apart is to look at the number of lungs, porcellio for example have two sets. Other key features is usually the antennas. Trachelipus rathkii is similar to P. scaber but it has five sets of lungs.

I learned recently that orange colours or specks in some species of woodlice mean that they're likely female and that there's a pattern referred to as calico, just like with cats!

April of last year, presumed Trachelipus rathkii