Ant's prey and other wildnature macro etudes

A dull, rainy November is a time to miss sunny summer days, a time to delve into old archives, a time to look back — and process the stuff during the long evenings ;) This summer I escaped the city to my summer spot just a few times, but brought back a lot of nice macro stuff, including flowers, fungi and insects. In this post I share my June encounters.

Тусклый дождливый ноябрь - время скучать о солнечных летних днях, время заглянуть в старые архивы, время поразглядывать фотографии - и обработать часть из них ;) этим летом я всего несколько раз сбегал из города на дачу, но привез обратно немало удачных макро- фото. Мне повезло и с грибами, и с насекомыми, хотя и не могу похвастать чем-то уникальным.

An ant carrying his prey. I think I spent 20 mins at this spot (cause it was well-lit) - feeding myself to mosquitos, killing mosquitos in large amounts, and vice versa feeding the ants with said mosquitos corpses - which gave me an option to shoot ants carrying more and more nutritious protein stuff. 😂

A new born froggie.

A cocktail in lime-esque tones.

The kingdom of lichens and fungi.

Little snail teethering on the edge.

Moss and lichen colonies on on old appletree trunk.

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Someone's makeshift salivary houses. Some larvae made it, I bet.

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I often fail taking dragonfly's captures. Dont know why. Bad luck or?.. anyway - have almost zero good captures, a small amount of mediocre ones and tonns of a stuff for trash-bin.

This wasp was too quirky and did not want to spend even second on same spot -- all of the 20 captures I did, turned blurry. Pretty sadly! Dont know correct iD of anything else who it was.