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Nice 👍 I found my first ones today 😀

I'd heard about them but never seen one till today😀. They were in groups of 15-20 individuals with all sizes from juvenile to presumably adult.

A first for me today - Bristly Millipede (Polyxenus lagurus). They don't like to stop moving, so getting stacked shots was difficult. 3-4mm for the bigger ones, the little ones were tiny.

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A Hebrew Character (Orthosia gothica) on a willow catkin this evening.

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I have the 2x teleconverter as well but don't tend to use it at night. It's a bit fiddly to take on and off in the dark compared to the Raynox. Happy to give a few tips if you'd like.

Thanks Paul. She was posing rather nicely for me. Still had to get into an awkward position to get the shot though 😅.

Hi Jesika,
This was with an OM1 mkii, M.Zuiko 90MM macro and an added Raynox dcr-250 for this real close-up. It's a stack of 68 individual images 🙂.

Sticking with spiders for this one. Here's a female Walnut Orbweaver (Nuctenea umbratica) I found a couple of nights back. They have a slightly flattened abdomen allowing them to hide in cracks and crevices during the day.

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Thanks, Trey 🤝🙂

Thanks Thomas 🙂 👍

Thanks very much 🙂 They do look stunning nestled into the heather flowers. Waiting not so patiently for this season to really get going 😅

Thanks very much. I do record my finds most of the time but have moved over to INaturalist rather than Irecord.

A bit of slug appreciation!😃
I found this orange beauty on a mossy log a few nights back.

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This Cyclosa conica spider (Trashline Orbweaver) was trying to blend in on a small tree. I've only ever seen this species once before, then found two on this one trip. The other stayed in its web for the second shot.

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Hardly been out with the camera so far this year 🌧🌧🌧 The sun came out today for a bit though 😃📸 and I'm off to a start with my #ladybirdyearlist 🐞

1️⃣ Propylea quatourdecimpunctata (14 spot ladybird)

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I'm in the process of rewiring my house at the moment and found this beautiful wasp nest while crawling around under the floor today. Thankfully, no one was home 🐝🐝 - looks to be a couple of years old.
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🙂If you've not seen it yet, the Lynx Spider picture that won the arachnids category is particularly good.

A great surprise earlier this week - one of my photos gained a second place in the annual Close Up Photographer of the Year @cupoty.bsky.social awards 😃. An unexpected result amongst some amazing photographers. www.cupoty.com to see the stunning finalists and winners.
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It's not really been the weather for macro photography recently 🌧🌧🌧 so I took to the beach for the first time in ages. A few hours at Charmouth and some great nodules collected. Looking forward to getting stuck into the prepping - should be some good ones. #fossils #ammonites #jurassiccoast

A Buzzing Spider (Anyphaena accentuata) found in some local woods just after dark 🔦.

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A pair of mating slugs found on a local woodland floor.

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A resting dew-laden damselfly taken early on a cool summer morning.

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A pair of Robber Flies. This shot of a mating pair was taken back in August in Norfolk, UK.

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Including: Small Stagshorn (Calocera cornea) Wrinkled Crust (Phlebia radiata) Candlesnuff (Xylaria hypoxylon) Steely Bonnet (Mycena pseudocorticola) Inocybe sp. Scurfy Twiglet (Tubaria furfuracea) Salmon-Eggs Slime Mould (Hemitrichia decipiens) Mycena sp. Purple Jellydisc (Ascocoryne sarcoides) King Alfred’s Cakes (Daldinia concentrica) Variable Oysterling (Crepidotus variabilis) Deceiver (Laccaria laccata)

I grabbed my phone, a clip-on macro lens and focussed on the smaller fungi (and a slime mould) in a wet Dorset wood. See ALT text for more detail 😎 Powerstock NR 1/11/25 #dorset #fungi @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

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A Robber Fly grasping its hoverfly prey from behind and still with its proboscis in the hoverfly's back. I found these two on some path-side bracken in the woodland at RSPB Minsmere, on the east coast of the UK.

A closer look at the same scene

A scene I'd been hoping to find for some time and finally got the chance back in the summer at RSPB Minsmere. This Robber Fly was preoccupied enough to let me get a few stacked shots before flying off.

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A recent bucket-lister find😀. A Green Huntsman (Micrommata virescens) female guarding her egg sac 💚.

Luckily, she'd made her retreat under some bracken and I could turn it over without causing any damage.

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Thanks very much 🙂

Amazing creatures 🙂. Thanks for the info - I'd heard about the formic acid but assumed it was from the tubes that extend from their 'tail'. I can see the slit below their head in the photo.