March Photo Challenge - Entries (Please Post them here)

[Photo Challenge]

The topic this month is: "Insects"

This thread is only for posting your entry along with any comments you'd like to make about your own photo.
If you would like to comment on other entries, or have any "other" shots, then please use the Comments and Rejects Thread -> HERE.

Remember, one entry per person and the image must be your own work.
Normal forum rules and image size applies.

The image doesn't necessarily have to have been taken this month but we do encourage you to go out and enjoy the challenge.

The winner of the public vote, which will be run at the end of the month, will get to choose next month's topic and have their photo added to our "Photo Challenge Hall of Fame" thread.

Good luck, Don't Let The Bed Bugs Bite, and good shooting.

[omegacrux (David)]

A moth I think , about the size of a 10c piece
Taken with a Sigma 70-300 macro I found at a second hand shop .

David

[UniPol]

I didn't have to look far in my yard this morning for this shot of a pretty colourful caterpillar (Trichiocercus sparshalli caterpillar/long-tailed bombyx moth) on our bird bath. I wondered if a caterpillar is considered to be an insect but good old google said :

Caterpillars are insects. They are the larval stage of butterflies and moths, which are flying insects. Caterpillars form pupae, within which they transform into butterflies and moths.

Google also said that the definition of an insect is :

"a trivial or contemptible person"

[raya]

Fly on red garbage bin. Canon EOS 60D and Canon 100mm macro

[REVEREND (Raymond)]

A Jewel Beetle on a leaf of a Blackboy.
Cheers Reverend.

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Dragonflies doing what they do on a metal pole. (taken at the air show)

[zenith (Tim)]

A locust stuck to the front of my wife's car being devoured by European wasps.

[firstlight (Tony)]

Oops... editing my post and the computer does an automatic restart... Windoze I guess.

I've changed my entry to one that I captured this morning with my iPhone SE. Lots of fungi about and I missed the "farmer" tending his field... or maybe just foraging.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

The tiger of the insect world?

[Striker (Tony)]

Long Legged Fly
Sony A7Rii with Sony 90mm macro

[Derek Klepp]

Took this last night two exposures one for the Spider one for the Milky Way .Focusing on the Spider and lighting it with a head torch and then refocusing on the stars without moving the camera(5DS)Sigma 50mm at 1.6. One 12s exp and one 1/15s exp at ISO 6400 put together in Picasa.May try again tonight if the Spider is in the same position .

[DJScotty (Scott)]

One of my first "deep macro" shots.
Canon 600d
f4.5 and about 0.25 of a second.

Thanks for looking

[astronobob (Bob)]

A Web without a Web

The Food Web is the complex network of different animals' feeding relations and the chain only follows a direct, linear pathway of one animal at a time

Caught this 'carry-on's' only tonight as I make a cuppa near the kitchen window ; note: the battle field, Wing Debre
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600D, fill flash, 70-200 L
F2.8, 120mm, 1/60th, iso400