New Collection – Family Bombyliidae – Bee-Flies

A Bee-fly, Order Diptera (雙翅目) family Bombyliidae (蜂虻科) Toxophora sp.

quite common near my common macro area but always failed chase it …. as it is too tiny (~2-4mm at long) ….

I was lucky last week to have it with some dews too and I was using my SIGMA150 F2.8 that time so no problem to get few shots before it flew off …

and with FULL ET + 1.4TC + ~some crop

and thanks admin and member of www.diptera.info for the ID

more Fly Series | Diptera 雙翅目

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New Collection – Family Ascalaphidae – Owl-flies

Not really a rare one but this was my 2nd time see it in my country …. and should consider a rare insect for myself ….

and this was under same order with my belove lacewing (Order Neuroptera) that’s why I saw some lacewing eggs around the area … but it belong to owl-fly instead …

this is a bug rest a lot .. but not easy to look for it as it can quietly fly near by you but as long as you found it , it allow you get close to it … even at night torch light can direct to it for minutes it will still stay still … a beautiful and good macro model

a collection of Owl-flies

New Collection – Ant-mimic – Male myrmarachne

just another add-on for my ant-mimic collection … this ant-mimic seem to be mimic Tetraponera rufonigra ant…

as usual this spider found near where the ant that it mimic , and quite active which need alot of patient to be capture …

some other ant-mimic previous share

… another Ant-Mimic Crab spider – 蟻蟹蛛 …

Black Ant-Mimicking Jumping Spider (Myrmarachne)

Ant-mimic jumping spider | 蟻蛛 (male)

Ant-mimic jumping spider | 蟻蛛 (female)

more spider from my collection

New Collection – Twig-Like Feather-Legged Spider, Miagrammopes sp.

don;t think this is rare but 1st time seeing it, found this after few hours waiting for the Owl Frog (going to share this later) … just before  I step up to my car found this spider on my tripod , can;t recognized it as spider for start but after a while decided to change the len to have few shots of the weird spider …

update

more spider pictures

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