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Late night bonus from the garden this afternoon, seen hiding in a rose.

Likely to be a Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil (Polydrusus formosus; 🇩🇪 Seidiger Glanzrüssler).

Apparently the "immigrant" part of the name refers to their adaptability & ease of fitting in in new places, not that they're not locally native.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Late night bonus from the garden this afternoon, seen hiding in a rose.

Likely to be a Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil (Polydrusus formosus; 🇩🇪 Seidiger Glanzrüssler).

Apparently the "immigrant" part of the name refers to their adaptability & ease of fitting in in new places, not that they're not locally native.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Late night bonus from the garden this afternoon, seen hiding in a rose.

Likely to be a Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil (Polydrusus formosus; 🇩🇪 Seidiger Glanzrüssler).

Apparently the "immigrant" part of the name refers to their adaptability & ease of fitting in in new places, not that they're not locally native.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Late night bonus from the garden this afternoon, seen hiding in a rose.

Likely to be a Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil (Polydrusus formosus; 🇩🇪 Seidiger Glanzrüssler).

Apparently the "immigrant" part of the name refers to their adaptability & ease of fitting in in new places, not that they're not locally native.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Late night bonus from the garden this afternoon, seen hiding in a rose.

Likely to be a Green Immigrant Leaf Weevil (Polydrusus formosus; 🇩🇪 Seidiger Glanzrüssler).

Apparently the "immigrant" part of the name refers to their adaptability & ease of fitting in in new places, not that they're not locally native.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Regulation 53km weekend ride

Including 20 mins wandering in the river meadows at the Fischkinderstube.

This lovely beast with fluffy antennae is a non-biting midge, family Chironomidae. Possibly genus Glytotendipes – hoping for guidance from iNat experts.

#CyclingLife 🚴‍♂️
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Regulation 53km weekend ride

Including 20 mins wandering in the river meadows at the Fischkinderstube.

This lovely beast with fluffy antennae is a non-biting midge, family Chironomidae. Possibly genus Glytotendipes – hoping for guidance from iNat experts.

#CyclingLife 🚴‍♂️
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Regulation 53km weekend ride

Including 20 mins wandering in the river meadows at the Fischkinderstube.

This lovely beast with fluffy antennae is a non-biting midge, family Chironomidae. Possibly genus Glytotendipes – hoping for guidance from iNat experts.

#CyclingLife 🚴‍♂️
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Regulation 53km weekend ride

Including 20 mins wandering in the river meadows at the Fischkinderstube.

This lovely beast with fluffy antennae is a non-biting midge, family Chironomidae. Possibly genus Glytotendipes – hoping for guidance from iNat experts.

#CyclingLife 🚴‍♂️
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Regulation 53km weekend ride

Including 20 mins wandering in the river meadows at the Fischkinderstube.

This lovely beast with fluffy antennae is a non-biting midge, family Chironomidae. Possibly genus Glytotendipes – hoping for guidance from iNat experts.

#CyclingLife 🚴‍♂️
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And something a little more common around this time of year – a mint moth (Pyrausta aurata).

In German, it goes by several names, including Goldzünsler, Purpurzünsler, & Minzenmotte.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And something a little more common around this time of year – a mint moth (Pyrausta aurata).

In German, it goes by several names, including Goldzünsler, Purpurzünsler, & Minzenmotte.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And something a little more common around this time of year – a mint moth (Pyrausta aurata).

In German, it goes by several names, including Goldzünsler, Purpurzünsler, & Minzenmotte.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And something a little more common around this time of year – a mint moth (Pyrausta aurata).

In German, it goes by several names, including Goldzünsler, Purpurzünsler, & Minzenmotte.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And something a little more common around this time of year – a mint moth (Pyrausta aurata).

In German, it goes by several names, including Goldzünsler, Purpurzünsler, & Minzenmotte.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A couple of newbies in the garden today.

First, a little leafhopper, hanging out above a big (relatively) rain puddle.

Pretty sure that it's Agallia consobrina (🇩🇪 Hain-Dickkopfzikade), although it doesn't seem to have a common name in English.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A couple of newbies in the garden today.

First, a little leafhopper, hanging out above a big (relatively) rain puddle.

Pretty sure that it's Agallia consobrina (🇩🇪 Hain-Dickkopfzikade), although it doesn't seem to have a common name in English.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A couple of newbies in the garden today.

First, a little leafhopper, hanging out above a big (relatively) rain puddle.

Pretty sure that it's Agallia consobrina (🇩🇪 Hain-Dickkopfzikade), although it doesn't seem to have a common name in English.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A couple of newbies in the garden today.

First, a little leafhopper, hanging out above a big (relatively) rain puddle.

Pretty sure that it's Agallia consobrina (🇩🇪 Hain-Dickkopfzikade), although it doesn't seem to have a common name in English.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

A couple of newbies in the garden today.

First, a little leafhopper, hanging out above a big (relatively) rain puddle.

Pretty sure that it's Agallia consobrina (🇩🇪 Hain-Dickkopfzikade), although it doesn't seem to have a common name in English.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Took a short walk before a JWST telecon & found a beetle that simultaneously sounds like a Death Eater, a spell, & a visiting foreign teacher in Harry Potter world.

It's the Dusky Wireworm in English, Agriotes Obscurus in Latin, & Düsterer Humusschnellkäfer in German.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Took a short walk before a JWST telecon & found a beetle that simultaneously sounds like a Death Eater, a spell, & a visiting foreign teacher in Harry Potter world.

It's the Dusky Wireworm in English, Agriotes Obscurus in Latin, & Düsterer Humusschnellkäfer in German.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Took a short walk before a JWST telecon & found a beetle that simultaneously sounds like a Death Eater, a spell, & a visiting foreign teacher in Harry Potter world.

It's the Dusky Wireworm in English, Agriotes Obscurus in Latin, & Düsterer Humusschnellkäfer in German.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Took a short walk before a JWST telecon & found a beetle that simultaneously sounds like a Death Eater, a spell, & a visiting foreign teacher in Harry Potter world.

It's the Dusky Wireworm in English, Agriotes Obscurus in Latin, & Düsterer Humusschnellkäfer in German.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Took a short walk before a JWST telecon & found a beetle that simultaneously sounds like a Death Eater, a spell, & a visiting foreign teacher in Harry Potter world.

It's the Dusky Wireworm in English, Agriotes Obscurus in Latin, & Düsterer Humusschnellkäfer in German.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Changeable weather atop the Königstuhl today, cold with sun & drizzle.

This stoic little fly was waiting the latter out – seems to be a predatory snipe fly, genus Rhagio, also known as downlooker flies.

And from the colouration on the abdomen, most likely R. vitripennis (🇩🇪 Schwarzfüßige Schnepfenfliege).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Changeable weather atop the Königstuhl today, cold with sun & drizzle.

This stoic little fly was waiting the latter out – seems to be a predatory snipe fly, genus Rhagio, also known as downlooker flies.

And from the colouration on the abdomen, most likely R. vitripennis (🇩🇪 Schwarzfüßige Schnepfenfliege).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Changeable weather atop the Königstuhl today, cold with sun & drizzle.

This stoic little fly was waiting the latter out – seems to be a predatory snipe fly, genus Rhagio, also known as downlooker flies.

And from the colouration on the abdomen, most likely R. vitripennis (🇩🇪 Schwarzfüßige Schnepfenfliege).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Changeable weather atop the Königstuhl today, cold with sun & drizzle.

This stoic little fly was waiting the latter out – seems to be a predatory snipe fly, genus Rhagio, also known as downlooker flies.

And from the colouration on the abdomen, most likely R. vitripennis (🇩🇪 Schwarzfüßige Schnepfenfliege).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Changeable weather atop the Königstuhl today, cold with sun & drizzle.

This stoic little fly was waiting the latter out – seems to be a predatory snipe fly, genus Rhagio, also known as downlooker flies.

And from the colouration on the abdomen, most likely R. vitripennis (🇩🇪 Schwarzfüßige Schnepfenfliege).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/116573129290879822

Update on this pretty brown fly I saw earlier today.

Thanks to experts on iNaturalist, it turns out not to be the rare Dexia rustica after all 🙁

Rather, it’s much more likely to be the extremely rare Dexia vacua instead 😵‍💫

Fewer than 10 sightings on iNaturalist in Germany and only ~60 across the whole of Europe.

So rare that it was thought to be almost extinct 😬

Not around Heidelberg, it would seem 🙂✌️

#BackgardenEntomology 🪰

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/116573129290879822

Update on this pretty brown fly I saw earlier today.

Thanks to experts on iNaturalist, it turns out not to be the rare Dexia rustica after all 🙁

Rather, it’s much more likely to be the extremely rare Dexia vacua instead 😵‍💫

Fewer than 10 sightings on iNaturalist in Germany and only ~60 across the whole of Europe.

So rare that it was thought to be almost extinct 😬

Not around Heidelberg, it would seem 🙂✌️

#BackgardenEntomology 🪰

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/116573129290879822

Update on this pretty brown fly I saw earlier today.

Thanks to experts on iNaturalist, it turns out not to be the rare Dexia rustica after all 🙁

Rather, it’s much more likely to be the extremely rare Dexia vacua instead 😵‍💫

Fewer than 10 sightings on iNaturalist in Germany and only ~60 across the whole of Europe.

So rare that it was thought to be almost extinct 😬

Not around Heidelberg, it would seem 🙂✌️

#BackgardenEntomology 🪰

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/116573129290879822

Update on this pretty brown fly I saw earlier today.

Thanks to experts on iNaturalist, it turns out not to be the rare Dexia rustica after all 🙁

Rather, it’s much more likely to be the extremely rare Dexia vacua instead 😵‍💫

Fewer than 10 sightings on iNaturalist in Germany and only ~60 across the whole of Europe.

So rare that it was thought to be almost extinct 😬

Not around Heidelberg, it would seem 🙂✌️

#BackgardenEntomology 🪰

RE: https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean/116573129290879822

Update on this pretty brown fly I saw earlier today.

Thanks to experts on iNaturalist, it turns out not to be the rare Dexia rustica after all 🙁

Rather, it’s much more likely to be the extremely rare Dexia vacua instead 😵‍💫

Fewer than 10 sightings on iNaturalist in Germany and only ~60 across the whole of Europe.

So rare that it was thought to be almost extinct 😬

Not around Heidelberg, it would seem 🙂✌️

#BackgardenEntomology 🪰

Some late evening sunshine, allowing me to spot this little fly from the glint of his silvery "nose" (really the frons).

It's a male in genus Metopia, satellite flies. Possibly M. argyrocephala (a name encoding the silver on the head), but iNaturalist tachnid experts say Metopia is hard to ID definitively from photos.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Some late evening sunshine, allowing me to spot this little fly from the glint of his silvery "nose" (really the frons).

It's a male in genus Metopia, satellite flies. Possibly M. argyrocephala (a name encoding the silver on the head), but iNaturalist tachnid experts say Metopia is hard to ID definitively from photos.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Some late evening sunshine, allowing me to spot this little fly from the glint of his silvery "nose" (really the frons).

It's a male in genus Metopia, satellite flies. Possibly M. argyrocephala (a name encoding the silver on the head), but iNaturalist tachnid experts say Metopia is hard to ID definitively from photos.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Some late evening sunshine, allowing me to spot this little fly from the glint of his silvery "nose" (really the frons).

It's a male in genus Metopia, satellite flies. Possibly M. argyrocephala (a name encoding the silver on the head), but iNaturalist tachnid experts say Metopia is hard to ID definitively from photos.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Some late evening sunshine, allowing me to spot this little fly from the glint of his silvery "nose" (really the frons).

It's a male in genus Metopia, satellite flies. Possibly M. argyrocephala (a name encoding the silver on the head), but iNaturalist tachnid experts say Metopia is hard to ID definitively from photos.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Finally for now, a familiar friend: a Yellow-fronted Soft-winged flower beetle (Clanoptilus elegans; 🇩🇪 Gelbstirniger Warzenkäfer).

Certainly not my best macro shots, but I like the graphical nature of them.

Especially the first, which feels like an ad for a tech company that's trying too hard to show that it's *striving*.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Finally for now, a familiar friend: a Yellow-fronted Soft-winged flower beetle (Clanoptilus elegans; 🇩🇪 Gelbstirniger Warzenkäfer).

Certainly not my best macro shots, but I like the graphical nature of them.

Especially the first, which feels like an ad for a tech company that's trying too hard to show that it's *striving*.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Finally for now, a familiar friend: a Yellow-fronted Soft-winged flower beetle (Clanoptilus elegans; 🇩🇪 Gelbstirniger Warzenkäfer).

Certainly not my best macro shots, but I like the graphical nature of them.

Especially the first, which feels like an ad for a tech company that's trying too hard to show that it's *striving*.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Finally for now, a familiar friend: a Yellow-fronted Soft-winged flower beetle (Clanoptilus elegans; 🇩🇪 Gelbstirniger Warzenkäfer).

Certainly not my best macro shots, but I like the graphical nature of them.

Especially the first, which feels like an ad for a tech company that's trying too hard to show that it's *striving*.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

Finally for now, a familiar friend: a Yellow-fronted Soft-winged flower beetle (Clanoptilus elegans; 🇩🇪 Gelbstirniger Warzenkäfer).

Certainly not my best macro shots, but I like the graphical nature of them.

Especially the first, which feels like an ad for a tech company that's trying too hard to show that it's *striving*.

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And just to show that not all arthropods are as obliging to the humble photographer, this little beetle was determined to run & hide every time I tried to take its portrait.

Fortunately, its 1970s hot rod colour scheme is very distinctive – it's a soft-winged flower beetle (Anthocomus fasciatus; 🇩🇪 Gebänderter Warzenkäfer).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And just to show that not all arthropods are as obliging to the humble photographer, this little beetle was determined to run & hide every time I tried to take its portrait.

Fortunately, its 1970s hot rod colour scheme is very distinctive – it's a soft-winged flower beetle (Anthocomus fasciatus; 🇩🇪 Gebänderter Warzenkäfer).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And just to show that not all arthropods are as obliging to the humble photographer, this little beetle was determined to run & hide every time I tried to take its portrait.

Fortunately, its 1970s hot rod colour scheme is very distinctive – it's a soft-winged flower beetle (Anthocomus fasciatus; 🇩🇪 Gebänderter Warzenkäfer).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And just to show that not all arthropods are as obliging to the humble photographer, this little beetle was determined to run & hide every time I tried to take its portrait.

Fortunately, its 1970s hot rod colour scheme is very distinctive – it's a soft-winged flower beetle (Anthocomus fasciatus; 🇩🇪 Gebänderter Warzenkäfer).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

And just to show that not all arthropods are as obliging to the humble photographer, this little beetle was determined to run & hide every time I tried to take its portrait.

Fortunately, its 1970s hot rod colour scheme is very distinctive – it's a soft-winged flower beetle (Anthocomus fasciatus; 🇩🇪 Gebänderter Warzenkäfer).

#Heidelberg 🏰
#Photography 📷️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️️
#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲