Bees, Moths, Butterflies, and All Manner of Small Amazing Things with Nikon.

Red Milkweed Borer, Tetraopes basalis. Grace Lake. Nikon 105mm VR.	bee on yellow daisy	lavendar bee	small pretty bee
Cucumber beetle on poppy	tiny insects on purple thorn flower	arctiid moth on iris	Ixodes Pacificus, Shingletown, California - June 2005. Carrier of Borrelia Burdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease.
Rocky Mountain Wood Tick, Shingletown, California	robber fly closeup	Pleocoma - Rain Beetle - from yard	Rain Beetle (Pleocoma) - Grace Lake, CA
Ten-Lined June beetle (previously called "Peanut Butter Log bug")!	"Pacific Green Sphinx" or Bear Sphinx, Arctonotus lucidus (thanks to 'Whatsthatbug.com" for the ID!)	Close up of head, Pacific Green Sphinx	Praying mantis front shot
Two honeybees. Do not try this at home.	mosquito hawks in love.	bee emerging from hollyhock	Black Tiger Moth
butterfly closeup	black beetle on thorn.jpg	snake closeup.jpg	engorged Ixodes Pacificus tick removed from dog..despite heavy snow cover..3/3/06..shingletown, California
engorged Ixodes Pacificus tick from dog..Lyme disease carrier.	fly on butterfly bush november 2005	honeybee on ground	large bee on daffodil
tiny spider on leaf	butterfly on salmon colored iris.	Boisduval's Blue (Plebeius icarioides) or Mission Blue?	Boisduval's Blue /(Plebeius icarioides)?
Interesting brown butterfly	Shiny brown damsel	Mother grasshopper with baby passenger.	small tan butterfly
tiny spider eating an ant	Homopteran ("Plant Hopper").	Yellow andblack dragonfly	DSC_2271-01.jpg
DSC_2278-01.jpg	red dragonfly profile close	Giant Crane Fly, scientific name: Holorusia rubiginosa, Kilarc Lake, Whitmore, California	osprey with fish
osprey with fish, Kilarc Lake 7-8-06	Thread-Waisted Digger Wasp attempting to drag off a caterpillar.	Willing and able to hop around carrying many times its weight.	Sorry, Mr. Bee. Go eat an ant. Not this butterfly-to-be.
daddy long legs eating wrapped meal	yellow jacket as close as you want to get.	microcaddis on Lower Sacramento river	green dragonfly nymph
hummingbird moth	orange caddis living in hollow stick	Mr. Cool...a moth with sunglasses	Pacific Green Sphinx moth visits me. What a life!
Blue winged olive mayfly male, orange eyes	Pacific Green Sphinx moth close up	small honeybee on crocus	Ixodes Pacificus, Shingletown, California - Nov. 25, 2006..Are those EYES?!!
Ixodes Pacificus, Shingletown, California - Nov. 25, 2006 - next to pencil	Ixodes Pacificus, Shingletown, California - Nov. 25, 2006 - on pencil tip	Ixodes Pacificus, Shingletown, California - Nov. 25, 2006 ...	Engorged Ixodes Pacificus, Shingletown, California (Nov. 2006)
Engorged Ixodes Pacificus (Black Legged Deer Tick), Northern California 11/2006	Orange Grasshopper in Fall Camo Colors