Butterflies and Bugs,
Or cool insect shots

Well, I thought they were cool, anyway. Haven't the slightest idea what the long skinny thing is, though all the arthropods shown here are crawling around on mint.

Man I love the sharpness of the focus. Click on the thumbnail to get a larger image 500 pixels wide. Nearly 10 years later (aug 2010, I found out what this was: an ailanthus webworm moth—quite by accident, f2tE was showing me stumbleupon, and I, er, stumbled upon a bug ID site with a picture of this one;)

 

Sulphur butterfly.

 

Two sulphur butterflies. Though the picture below shows the butterflies better I like even distribution of the yellow splotches of the black eyed susans (_rudbeckia_) in the background better in this one.

 

I have a butterfly book with many beautiful shots—I was going to make butterfly canes and wanted it for reference. After I took this I noticed many of the pictures in that were also of butterflies mating—see the thing is, they can't get away, giving inept photographers more time to get a good shot.

 

Photographed 2001, with a coolpix 990.