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Finally, an oddity.

By all accounts, this looks very like a rufous grasshopper (Gomphocerippus rufus; 🇩🇪 Rote Keulenschrecke) & probably is.

And yet one of the key markers of G rufus is that it has prominent white tips at the end of its clubbed antennae.

So is this actually something else? 🧐

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

Finally, an oddity.

By all accounts, this looks very like a rufous grasshopper (Gomphocerippus rufus; 🇩🇪 Rote Keulenschrecke) & probably is.

And yet one of the key markers of G rufus is that it has prominent white tips at the end of its clubbed antennae.

So is this actually something else? 🧐

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

Finally, an oddity.

By all accounts, this looks very like a rufous grasshopper (Gomphocerippus rufus; 🇩🇪 Rote Keulenschrecke) & probably is.

And yet one of the key markers of G rufus is that it has prominent white tips at the end of its clubbed antennae.

So is this actually something else? 🧐

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

Finally, an oddity.

By all accounts, this looks very like a rufous grasshopper (Gomphocerippus rufus; 🇩🇪 Rote Keulenschrecke) & probably is.

And yet one of the key markers of G rufus is that it has prominent white tips at the end of its clubbed antennae.

So is this actually something else? 🧐

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

Finally, an oddity.

By all accounts, this looks very like a rufous grasshopper (Gomphocerippus rufus; 🇩🇪 Rote Keulenschrecke) & probably is.

And yet one of the key markers of G rufus is that it has prominent white tips at the end of its clubbed antennae.

So is this actually something else? 🧐

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

Third, a small & very active leafhopper nymph sprinting around on the ivy.

Given the presence of just a few black spots, I'm guessing it's a bay leafhopper (Synophropsis lauri) rather than genus Fieberiella, the other common leafhopper here. The nymph of the latter has lots of smaller black spots.

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

Third, a small & very active leafhopper nymph sprinting around on the ivy.

Given the presence of just a few black spots, I'm guessing it's a bay leafhopper (Synophropsis lauri) rather than genus Fieberiella, the other common leafhopper here. The nymph of the latter has lots of smaller black spots.

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

Second, a wood cockroach (genus Ectobius) seen from a slightly unusual perspective – usually they're seen scuttling across the ground & photographed from above.

As for the species, always hard to tell – probably E vittiventris based on a fuzzy overhead shot, but maybe E pallidus or E lapponicus.

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

A few evening smash & grabs, meaning fairly poor pictures taken quickly and/or from a distance 🤷‍♂️

First is a female yellow-haired sun fly (Myathropa florea). The distinctive thorax markings give it its 🇩🇪 name, Totenkopfschwebfliege, although I also like the English alternative, Batman hoverfly 🦇🙂

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

Oh, & one more thing: photographed with my phone on the inside of a window, this may be rare.

It's a female ichneumonid wasp in genus Perithous. P scurra is slightly more common, but the short ovipositor suggests P divinator is possible.

Only 2 prior DE observations on iNat, near Trier & Koblenz 😳

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

Oh, & one more thing: photographed with my phone on the inside of a window, this may be rare.

It's a female ichneumonid wasp in genus Perithous. P scurra is slightly more common, but the short ovipositor suggests P divinator is possible.

Only 2 prior DE observations on iNat, near Trier & Koblenz 😳

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

Lastly, one of the masters of camouflage – often hard to spot initially, despite their size & propensity for sitting out in the open.

This is a southern sickle bush-cricket aka the Mediterranean katydid (Phaneroptera nana; 🇩🇪 Vierpunktige Sichelschrecke).

Lacking a scythe-like ovipositor, it's a male.

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

And resting briefly on the ivy between feeds, this is a female orange-belted leafwalker (Xylota segnis; 🇩🇪 Gemeine Langbauchschwebfliege).

Quite common apparently, but it's the first I've seen, & unfortunately poorly photographed, as it was some way from me & quickly flew off 🤷‍♂️

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

And resting briefly on the ivy between feeds, this is a female orange-belted leafwalker (Xylota segnis; 🇩🇪 Gemeine Langbauchschwebfliege).

Quite common apparently, but it's the first I've seen, & unfortunately poorly photographed, as it was some way from me & quickly flew off 🤷‍♂️

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

And resting briefly on the ivy between feeds, this is a female orange-belted leafwalker (Xylota segnis; 🇩🇪 Gemeine Langbauchschwebfliege).

Quite common apparently, but it's the first I've seen, & unfortunately poorly photographed, as it was some way from me & quickly flew off 🤷‍♂️

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

And resting briefly on the ivy between feeds, this is a female orange-belted leafwalker (Xylota segnis; 🇩🇪 Gemeine Langbauchschwebfliege).

Quite common apparently, but it's the first I've seen, & unfortunately poorly photographed, as it was some way from me & quickly flew off 🤷‍♂️

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

And resting briefly on the ivy between feeds, this is a female orange-belted leafwalker (Xylota segnis; 🇩🇪 Gemeine Langbauchschwebfliege).

Quite common apparently, but it's the first I've seen, & unfortunately poorly photographed, as it was some way from me & quickly flew off 🤷‍♂️

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

Then several flies feeding on the ivy:

A common drone fly (Eristalis tenax; 🇩🇪 Mistbiene [not as pretty as it sounds]), which are frequently seen in my garden, & a male face fly (Musca autumnalis; 🇩🇪 Herbstfliege), quickly & poorly grabbed with the wrong camera settings before it flew off 🙈

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

Then several flies feeding on the ivy:

A common drone fly (Eristalis tenax; 🇩🇪 Mistbiene [not as pretty as it sounds]), which are frequently seen in my garden, & a male face fly (Musca autumnalis; 🇩🇪 Herbstfliege), quickly & poorly grabbed with the wrong camera settings before it flew off 🙈

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

Then several flies feeding on the ivy:

A common drone fly (Eristalis tenax; 🇩🇪 Mistbiene [not as pretty as it sounds]), which are frequently seen in my garden, & a male face fly (Musca autumnalis; 🇩🇪 Herbstfliege), quickly & poorly grabbed with the wrong camera settings before it flew off 🙈

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

Then several flies feeding on the ivy:

A common drone fly (Eristalis tenax; 🇩🇪 Mistbiene [not as pretty as it sounds]), which are frequently seen in my garden, & a male face fly (Musca autumnalis; 🇩🇪 Herbstfliege), quickly & poorly grabbed with the wrong camera settings before it flew off 🙈

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

Then several flies feeding on the ivy:

A common drone fly (Eristalis tenax; 🇩🇪 Mistbiene [not as pretty as it sounds]), which are frequently seen in my garden, & a male face fly (Musca autumnalis; 🇩🇪 Herbstfliege), quickly & poorly grabbed with the wrong camera settings before it flew off 🙈

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

Something old, something new ...

First, one of the more elusive Cylindromyia flies for me, albeit fairly common in this area.

This is a female Cylindromyia bicolor (🇩🇪 Zweifarbige Raupenfliege), calmly posing in the rose bush.

Easily ID'd, as it lacks the black abdomen tip most other species have.

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

Something old, something new ...

First, one of the more elusive Cylindromyia flies for me, albeit fairly common in this area.

This is a female Cylindromyia bicolor (🇩🇪 Zweifarbige Raupenfliege), calmly posing in the rose bush.

Easily ID'd, as it lacks the black abdomen tip most other species have.

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

Something old, something new ...

First, one of the more elusive Cylindromyia flies for me, albeit fairly common in this area.

This is a female Cylindromyia bicolor (🇩🇪 Zweifarbige Raupenfliege), calmly posing in the rose bush.

Easily ID'd, as it lacks the black abdomen tip most other species have.

#Heidelberg 🏰
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Something old, something new ...

First, one of the more elusive Cylindromyia flies for me, albeit fairly common in this area.

This is a female Cylindromyia bicolor (🇩🇪 Zweifarbige Raupenfliege), calmly posing in the rose bush.

Easily ID'd, as it lacks the black abdomen tip most other species have.

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Weibchen der Punktierten Zartschrecke (Leptophypes punctatissima), eine Laubheuschreckenart 2

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An evening curiosity.

This is a flea beetle in genus Psylliodes & as it was on dried brassica, best guess is P chrysocephala, the cabbage-stem flea beetle (🇩🇪 Großer Rapserdfloh).

They're usually dark green, but can come in brown too (var anglica), albeit mostly in the UK & very rarely in DE in iNat.

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#BugOfTheDay 🐞
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An evening curiosity.

This is a flea beetle in genus Psylliodes & as it was on dried brassica, best guess is P chrysocephala, the cabbage-stem flea beetle (🇩🇪 Großer Rapserdfloh).

They're usually dark green, but can come in brown too (var anglica), albeit mostly in the UK & very rarely in DE in iNat.

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

An evening curiosity.

This is a flea beetle in genus Psylliodes & as it was on dried brassica, best guess is P chrysocephala, the cabbage-stem flea beetle (🇩🇪 Großer Rapserdfloh).

They're usually dark green, but can come in brown too (var anglica), albeit mostly in the UK & very rarely in DE in iNat.

#Heidelberg 🏰
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#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
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#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

An evening curiosity.

This is a flea beetle in genus Psylliodes & as it was on dried brassica, best guess is P chrysocephala, the cabbage-stem flea beetle (🇩🇪 Großer Rapserdfloh).

They're usually dark green, but can come in brown too (var anglica), albeit mostly in the UK & very rarely in DE in iNat.

#Heidelberg 🏰
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Hilfe Mamas letzte Rose ist in Gefahr :)) 1
ich bin mir nicht 100% sicher, glaube aber das es sich im ein Weibchen der Punktierten Zartschrecke handelt (Leptophypes punctatissima), eine Laubheuschreckenart.
Unglaublich lustig war es als sie versucht hat sich davon zu schleichen.

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Hilfe Mamas letzte Rose ist in Gefahr :)) 1
ich bin mir nicht 100% sicher, glaube aber das es sich im ein Weibchen der Punktierten Zartschrecke handelt (Leptophypes punctatissima), eine Laubheuschreckenart.
Unglaublich lustig war es als sie versucht hat sich davon zu schleichen.

#insects #rose #nature #naturephotography #InsectsOfTheFediverse #flowers #fujifilm #minolta #insectsofmastodon

Hilfe Mamas letzte Rose ist in Gefahr :)) 1
ich bin mir nicht 100% sicher, glaube aber das es sich im ein Weibchen der Punktierten Zartschrecke handelt (Leptophypes punctatissima), eine Laubheuschreckenart.
Unglaublich lustig war es als sie versucht hat sich davon zu schleichen.

#insects #rose #nature #naturephotography #InsectsOfTheFediverse #flowers #fujifilm #minolta #insectsofmastodon

Hilfe Mamas letzte Rose ist in Gefahr :)) 1
ich bin mir nicht 100% sicher, glaube aber das es sich im ein Weibchen der Punktierten Zartschrecke handelt (Leptophypes punctatissima), eine Laubheuschreckenart.
Unglaublich lustig war es als sie versucht hat sich davon zu schleichen.

#insects #rose #nature #naturephotography #InsectsOfTheFediverse #flowers #fujifilm #minolta #insectsofmastodon

Hilfe Mamas letzte Rose ist in Gefahr :)) 1
ich bin mir nicht 100% sicher, glaube aber das es sich im ein Weibchen der Punktierten Zartschrecke handelt (Leptophypes punctatissima), eine Laubheuschreckenart.
Unglaublich lustig war es als sie versucht hat sich davon zu schleichen.

#insects #rose #nature #naturephotography #InsectsOfTheFediverse #flowers #fujifilm #minolta #insectsofmastodon

Bonus picture of a seven-spot ladybird or C-7 (Coccinella septempunctata; 🇩🇪 Siebenpunkt).

Very decidedly not rare, but prettily posed on the ivy by the front door today, where many arthropods are feasting on the flowers.

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Bonus picture of a seven-spot ladybird or C-7 (Coccinella septempunctata; 🇩🇪 Siebenpunkt).

Very decidedly not rare, but prettily posed on the ivy by the front door today, where many arthropods are feasting on the flowers.

#Heidelberg 🏰
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Spotted this tiny ~2mm leafhopper this afternoon with a pretty colour scheme.

Likely subgenus Neoaliturus, but a species ID would need a genital examination 🍆

The most "common" in DE (26 observations on iNat) is N fenestratus (🇩🇪 Trauerzirpe), but N guttulatus or v rare N albilacustris are possible.

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This cockroach I can get to genus level, however – it's Ectobius.

But distinguishing E vittiventris & E pallidus, both common around here, is difficult without a microscopic examination.

Both are harmless & live outdoors. They can fly however, & sometimes enter houses by accident, attracted by lights.

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#BugOfTheDay 🐞
#MacroPhotography 🔬
#InsectsOfMastodon 🪰
#BackGardenEntomology 🪲

This cockroach I can get to genus level, however – it's Ectobius.

But distinguishing E vittiventris & E pallidus, both common around here, is difficult without a microscopic examination.

Both are harmless & live outdoors. They can fly however, & sometimes enter houses by accident, attracted by lights.

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

This cockroach I can get to genus level, however – it's Ectobius.

But distinguishing E vittiventris & E pallidus, both common around here, is difficult without a microscopic examination.

Both are harmless & live outdoors. They can fly however, & sometimes enter houses by accident, attracted by lights.

#Heidelberg 🏰
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This cockroach I can get to genus level, however – it's Ectobius.

But distinguishing E vittiventris & E pallidus, both common around here, is difficult without a microscopic examination.

Both are harmless & live outdoors. They can fly however, & sometimes enter houses by accident, attracted by lights.

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

This cockroach I can get to genus level, however – it's Ectobius.

But distinguishing E vittiventris & E pallidus, both common around here, is difficult without a microscopic examination.

Both are harmless & live outdoors. They can fly however, & sometimes enter houses by accident, attracted by lights.

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

#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag

Segelfalter und Kartäuser-Nelke.

#insectography #InsectsOfMastodon #Schmetterling #papillon #butterfly #insects #Insekten #InsektenAufMastodon #Barnim #Brandenburg

#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag

Segelfalter und Kartäuser-Nelke.

#insectography #InsectsOfMastodon #Schmetterling #papillon #butterfly #insects #Insekten #InsektenAufMastodon #Barnim #Brandenburg

#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag

Segelfalter und Kartäuser-Nelke.

#insectography #InsectsOfMastodon #Schmetterling #papillon #butterfly #insects #Insekten #InsektenAufMastodon #Barnim #Brandenburg

#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag

Segelfalter und Kartäuser-Nelke.

#insectography #InsectsOfMastodon #Schmetterling #papillon #butterfly #insects #Insekten #InsektenAufMastodon #Barnim #Brandenburg

#SilentSunday #StillerSonntag

Segelfalter und Kartäuser-Nelke.

#insectography #InsectsOfMastodon #Schmetterling #papillon #butterfly #insects #Insekten #InsektenAufMastodon #Barnim #Brandenburg

Made a quick garden visit between (welcome) showers 🌧️

Expectations were low, but I was rewarded with a brief glimpse of this pretty little fly, probably Callomyia amoena.

Fairly rare – only 15 prior observations in DE on iNaturalist, & none around here on either iNat or GBIF. More common in NL though.

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