#wildnature

Hello, community! After sharing the beauty of the Cuban Trogon with you, today I want to talk about the other extreme of Cuban nature: a tiny flying jewel that is completely unique to our planet. This

A slug on fungi micellium. Travelling caterpilar. A spider is hiding in ambush on a cornweed flower. Unidentified fly. Coral fungus popped up at my land, right 3m from the doors! A tiny pine sprout is

A fluffy caterpillar is resting on a daisy flower. This capture is not about magnigication or rare specimen identification, hehe. Its all about the bokeh and the art of photography! I can’t stop smiling

‎"Every fungus has a purpose in nature's endless cycle." ‎ ‎Hello, dear Hivers and fungi lovers! I hope you all are having a wonderful day. 🌷 ‎ ‎After I fed our dog outside, I saw a little white

In August I had amazing encounter. What you can find under an apple tree but not apples? Get down on your knees ...

Greetings! Today I’m sharing a brief photo report on an encounter with—and observation of—a creature that was new to me. Yes, it’s a caterpillar again! (For some reason, this summer has been incredibly

For this round of the challenge I present a wonderful caterpillar I encountered this summer -- for the first time in my life. It was caterpillar of an elephant hawk moth - considered to be a rare specie.

Greeting! For this #fungifriday I share fresh mushroom impressions from August encounters (all fungi you see in the post appeared right at my place). Nobody was harmed.

This is the first time I've encountered this creature. This caterpillar is the larva of a nocturnal papillon Alder moth. (Latin name: Acronicta alni). The adult caterpillar looks quite spectacular! NB:

A little selection from my fungi folders: six fresh macros from July. Very very very tiny mold. Stemonitis. (Mold, again). Finally - a bird's nest. I found a colony of this specie! Had a great 3-hour walk

Today I harvested some fruits from the tree. It was a birch, so I got nor apples neither lemons -- but those fancy spectacular larvae. Name is: Birch sawfly

I selected six macro captures to present today, all from the last week, and were taken in my garden. Look what cretures I have encountered; 2/3 of them still stay unidentified. Near the terrace we keep

Hola, setero! Today I share some fresh mushroom impressions from exploring of my summer house backyard. A little boleto Suillus bovinus. In Russian it has a funny name - 'Козлёнок' (a newborn baby-goat).

This morning, mother nature kissed me and sent a pleasant #macro photography subject : the ringlet, an elegant day butterfly (Aphantopus hyperantus -- a very well-spread specie for Europe) settled down

Greetings, Hiveans. I upload my fresh #macro captures and write down this blog from my village place - I plan to spend here the next two months, so probably there will be more and more and even more #macro

This capture I took back in April during a day-long hike in Karelia, across the Baltic Sea coast. It would have been an ordinary, unremarkable location, were it not for the amber-brown peat stream. It

While exploring this hidden waterfall, I was struck by how hard it is to find a corner of the world that hasn’t been touched by human hands. It feels like every beautiful landscape nowadays comes with

Used inaturalist service for the 1st time to share my observation - the beauty of this nocturnal moth demanded that.

Hola, setero! Today I had an exciting encounter in the local park. My wife and I had a little shopping business after dinner, and on the way back home strolled leizurely thru the local park. There was