#insectphotos

Never seen this beetle before but someone else said it is a Australian purple wood beetle. I am not sure if it is a correct ID so anyone who knows please let me know. It was photographed near Bunbury Western

I hope I have identified this fly correctly. This is a march fly or tabanid and is huge and to think that it can suck your blood with that long chainsaw of a mouth makes it quite scary. This particular

Creophilus erythrocephalus insect macro photo. To be honest I've never seen one of these before until the day I took the photo and had a hard time figuring out what type of insect it was. If you really

Ladybug with her egg macro photos. The first two are focus stacked the last one not. Hard to see the detail because I have to reduce the image quality to put them on here by a lot. If you really like it