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I overwintered a single swallowtail chrysalis after finding a chonky caterpillar making a run for it in the alleyway. Here is the result 8 months later

#insects #butterflies

Photo of a black swallowtail butterfly resting on my finger before it climbs onto some flowers to power up
#insects #butterflies

I think female mealybugs look kind of like fuzzy trilobites

#insects #MacroPhotography

Closeup photo of a female mealybug on a tree. The mealybug is roughly oval shaped and has many segments each with small pointy appendages sticking out along the edge. There are no eyes or mouth visible, it's hard to even say which end is which. It's covered in what looks like white powder. The males are small and winged and look very different from the females.
#MacroPhotography #insects

Three #photos today. Saw this pipevine #swallowtail flittering around the backyard and eventually it zeroed in on the #pipevine I planted earlier this spring just for this species (its host plant). Captured it alighting on it then depositing a clutch of #eggs.

#photography #butterfly #ButterflyPhotography #insects #InsectPhotography #MacroPhotography #BackyardWildlife #nature #gardening

Color photo of a black butterfly with blue, orange, and white spots hovering above a pipevine tendril.
Color photo of a black butterfly with blue, orange, and white spots clinging to a pipevine leaf stem and depositing orange eggs on it.
Color macro photo of a clutch of orange eggs freshly deposited by a pipevine swallowtail at the base of a pipevine leaf stem.
#photography #nature #photos #MacroPhotography #gardening #insects #butterfly #BackyardWildlife #insectphotography #Swallowtail #pipevine #eggs #butterflyphotography

A stink bug, genus Megarrhamphus spotted in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, Malaysia on 7 April 2026. iNaturalist doesn't have many local observations of it, so I think it is an uncommon bug.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/3… ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Malaysia #Insects #TrueBugs #Hemiptera #StinkBugs #Pentatomidae

Top down shot of a stink bug. It is long with a narrow body. It is mostly pinkish, with an orange-yellow patch running down the middle of the back.
Another shot of the bug from lower down, showing the lower half of the body is also pinkish. A white line runs along the side of the body.
#photography #nature #insects #inaturalist #TrueBugs #malaysia #Hemiptera #StinkBugs #Pentatomidae

"Here, we are not searching for luxury...
we are searching for a moment of sleep without fear,
for ground that doesn't sting us every time we come close.
We are tired of a war that never ends...
even the smallest creatures have turned against us."

📷 & words by Naeema

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Drama in the garden, with a bunch of freeloader flies (yes, that's a thing) taking advantage of a crab spider's kill on the milkweed. #Insects #Spiders #Nature #Milichiidae
Photograph of a white flower head amid other vegetation, a plump white spider sitting atop it facing left and dangling a dead honey bee from its mouth. A dozen or so small black flies are clustered on the bee,with three airborne flying about it.
#nature #insects #spiders #milichiidae

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