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This Running Crab spider was hanging from a silk thread and so I moved a leaf under it and put it on the fence so I could get a picture. I didn't even see it had missing legs until I processed the shots. I'm not sure if it an immature spider and if so may regenerate a leg or three during the...

This rather plain brown butterfly landed on my neighbours fence. It was barely visible until the wings expanded in the afternoon sun. The brown body is useful to hide among leaves and debris but it puts on quite a show when seen from above with the wings open. iNauturalist says it is a Compton...

These odd looking creatures make it seem impossible to imagine who came up with this design. It was quite content to let me get really close and even move the leaf around so I could get a head shot.

It’s Winged Wednesday, where feathers, flutters, and flight steal the show! Whether they’re soaring, hovering, gliding, or simply posing where the light is best, we want to see your favorite winged wonders. Birds, bugs, bats, butterflies, dragonflies, or anything else with wings—if it flies, it...

While searching for insects in a local park I saw this lovely rose in a neighbouring garden. They really are an attractive species.

It’s Winged Wednesday, where feathers, flutters, and flight steal the show! Whether they’re soaring, hovering, gliding, or simply posing where the light is best, we want to see your favorite winged wonders. Birds, bugs, bats, butterflies, dragonflies, or anything else with wings—if it flies, it...

Many spruce trees in my local park are dying and I have been documenting some of the insects that seem to be attracted to the dead and dying wood. This is a female Braconid wasp. Her ovipositor is almost as long as her body. She was moving up and down the bark of the tree, poking her ovipositor...

It’s Winged Wednesday, where feathers, flutters, and flight steal the show! Whether they’re soaring, hovering, gliding, or simply posing where the light is best, we want to see your favorite winged wonders. Birds, bugs, bats, butterflies, dragonflies, or anything else with wings—if it flies, it...

While out looking for insets to photograph I noticed these galls on some wild roses. My friend is an entomologist that did his PhD on rose galls. I sent these images to him and this is his response. (Thanks Joe). These are galls of the cynipid wasp Diplolepis bicolor and they are found on Rosa...

I'm not sure if this belongs here or in the Macro section so please advise if this is the wrong place. Out in the community garden with my macro lens I saw this spider working among the rhubarb flower stalks. I think it is a six-spotted Orbweaver.

The South Saskatchewan River runs through Saskatoon and has a man made weir in the middle of the city. I went there yesterday morning to see if the pelicans were feeding where the water pours over the weir. No pelicans were present but this beaver was walking along the concrete abutment. You...

On the prairies we are anxious for spring to arrive. I'm sure it must be here because I went out this morning, waded through 7" of new snow that fell overnight and saw this patch of 'Snow Drops' in full bloom.

Maybe one in a hundred times that I go birding do all the stars align and I see the bird I was after, it cooperates, the light is good and my camera was set up correctly. This happened yesterday as I was walking through the Slocan Campground while visiting my daughter in Slocan B.C. An American...

While waiting for spring to come these tiny splashes of colour are still possible to find. Moss Some form of Trumpet Lichen that grows on dead logs.

The willows have started to bud here in Slocan B.C.

My granddaughter just returned from 2 months in New Zealand. I dropped her off and about 30 minutes later received a frantic call that there was a giant bug in her luggage. It was a big shiny cockroach that had crawled into her luggage at the house she was visiting in Christchurch. I took it...

The weather has turn to real winter with some lower temperatures, ice and snow. Just out my back door the ice was creating wonderful patterns on the berries and just inside my back door a lingering Boxelder bug was still looking for something.

Sometime ago I seem to remember Eric saying he did not like pure white backgrounds with birds in flight. I totally agree and had an experience the other day that shows this off. I was looking for Trumpeter Swans and noticed two Bald Eagles in a tree some distance away. As I was looking at the...

Trumpeter Swans come to the Slocan River in B.C. to overwinter as the water stays open and there is lots of vegetation for them to eat. It was a great day to see them as I was able to reach the river's edge by advancing out of the forest each time the bird dipped its head under the water to get...

In an effort to squeeze the last bits of colour and growth out of the scene before the white stuff takes over I found these here in Slocan B.C. A family of mushrooms working away at decomposing the forest floor. (This is a 30 image stack). These leaves are stubbornly hanging onto their centre...