A cool looking bug. Nicely composed shot with red and black sitting on top of the yellow flower with a smooth bokehed background.
Branch to a new Small things seen up close thread or keep the original?
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- Started by Bryan on March 3, 2026.
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Tatty wings
Bees don't have any protection around the edges of their wings so they can get damaged with use.
This bee had badly damaged wings but amazingly could still fly OK with his smaller wings.
Taken yesterday, pictured here on my lavender.zooming in a bit
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I reckon he has just managed to escape a predator like a bird. I see the same with dragonfly wings.
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Yes and yes.
That image was taken from no more than ten centimeters away from the dragonfly, and it has been then cropped: in the original shot, part of the wings and the tip of the abdomen were outside the frame, so I cropped it to keep just the central section you see here... -
Thank you very much, I'm glad you like it...
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A beautiful and surpraising image: it is impressive how these creatures manage to keep flying with such battered wings. I believe Byan posted a photo of a dragonfly capable of flying with only three wings...
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Yellow…
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Sunny fausta…
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Wandering Percher
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A beautiful specimen with fine detail...
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The website is going to be given an R rating soon... 😀
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Common Bluetail
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Grow in by simple.joy, on Flickr -
Very nice! what is it?
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A wasp doing wasp things...
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Thank you! It is a (really small) part of a flower called "Snapdragon" (Antirrhinum)
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Really, really small!
At first glance, it looked like some kind of carnivorous plant. Around here, we call them “dragon mouths” and for me it is impossible to walk past one without making it open its mouth 😀
