Candy striped spider and Water scavenger beetle

   

Not a big post in keeping with the subjects.

I don't think I'd get these handheld photos with my 70mm lens, the Nikkor MC 105/2.8 S is a revelation.

Note, I'm aware that viewing/reading the text on an Android and probably iPhone is difficult. I've investigated and found the theme/template is no longer supported and I can't enlarge the fonts. I suggest reading the blog in landscape will help. The desktop version on a computer isn't affected. I'll look into changing the template but that would affect all of the previous posts, with all the problems that brings.

A Water scavenger beetle Helophorus brevipalpis. Probably the smallest insect I've photographed and managed to identify, maybe not to the level of variant, I don't have a microscope and it's 2mm long

Candy-striped spider Enoplognatha ovata and a Black Compost Fly which is a very small insect, and the spider isn't very big

10-spot Ladybird and a different pattern from the previous one in an earlier post, they're also very small

Generation "Z" insect photography

  
I've moved on to use a better lens for the job of photographing insects, some only 4mm long, often just seconds on a flower, and today it was also windy. All were in an urban setting, my garden...

Red Soldier Beetle, photos here taken on a 105mm 2.8 Z lens, hence the better quality

Potato Capsid Closterotomus norwegicus

Green-veined White

Common Frog, one of this years, some others are more advanced and two adults were seen recently

Lucilia sericata Blow Fly species

Lunuled Aphideater or UK Common Spotted Field Syrph Eupeodes luniger

Narcissus Bulb Fly

Patchwork Leafeater Bee Megachile centuncularis

Hydrangea variant unknown

Bonking Beetles and 10-spot Ladybird

   
Text and names under the individual photos, I can't recall seeing a 10-spot Ladybird or a Grey-banded Mining Bee before, with the usual caveats on ID.

10-spot Ladybird Adalia decempunctata, two photos to see the details, it's likely it will get darker with age

Grey-banded Mining Bee Andrena denticulata

Narcissus Bulb Fly

Red Soldier Beetles, making the next generation

Patchwork Leafcutter Bee Megachile centuncularis

Tree Bumblebee Bombus hypnorum

Swift, the best photo so far in declining light around 2000 hrs. The adults are feeding the chicks more often, so my next step is to stand in the street and try to photograph the adults as they enter the nest. Most of my neighbours take some interest and ask what birds they are