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This tiny spider was sitting on a leaf by my fence. It was cool out and the wind was blowing so I cut the leaf off and brought it inside where I had my camera set up. For a short while the spider sat quite still so I was able to get a close up of the face. It started to move around as it warmed...

This spider was sitting on a leaf and not moving much but the wind was moving the leaf so I cut the leaf off and brought it inside. Once I managed to focus on the spider i was able to get an image stack. Not the greatest stack as the area behind the head was fuzzy but it was interesting to see...

These impossibly large eyes really make jumping spiders rather cute. Oh course you can't be a complete arachnophobe to give any spider a 'cute' label.

While at a friend's place the other day I spied a robin sitting on the nose of a wire sculpture of a coyote. I did not have my telephoto lens but did have a 12-100 mm zoom. It actually shows the environment better at a wider angle as you can see the canola field in full yellow bloom. It seemed...

I had cut into a peach and it was not quite ripe so I left it on the counter. Soon the fruit flies, attracted to the wound in the peach skin started swarming the area. I set up my macro lens on a tripod with the peach at the edge of the counter. With this position I could get really close and...

Wandering through my local community garden a Damselfly and a Dragonfly (wait...that sounds like the beginning of a bad joke) where posing in the foliage. Have not been able to get a species for this Damselfly. Just got word from iNaturalist this is a Spotted Spreadwing. This image shows the...

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.