Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


September 13, 2009: Lynx-like hopper and a butterfly drinking morning dew

I call this a metallic fly - as the thorax has a metallic-like color

sep 13 8870 metallic fly

A curious ladybug

sep 13 8880 ladybug

A tiger moth

sep 13 8888 tiger moth

Metallic fly on top and an assassin bug under the leaf

sep 13 8890 metallic fly and

A moth or butterfly drinking morning dew

sep 13 8917 drinking

Drinking from behind

sep 13 8922 drinking behind

Drinking - head on

sep 13 8941 face proboscis

Looking at me

sep 13 8948 face proboscis sharp

Morning dew

sep 13 8950 face proboscis

Drinking to the side

sep 13 8961 drinking proposcis

Drops of morning dew

sep 13 8963 drinking

Flexible proboscis

sep 13 8967 drinking bent

Side view

sep 13 8973 drinking

Drinking

sep 13 8981 drinking

Proboscis retracted

sep 13 8985 faceoff

sep 13 8995 tiny bfly

Yellow moth

sep 13 9009 yellow moth

Melastomataceae and a hopper that looks like a lynx

sep 13 9051 Melastomataceae lynx hopper

A closer look

sep 13 9052 lynx ghopper

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