A meadow scorpionfly snacking on a dead caterpillar (peacock butterfly), next to (mayyyybe?) the cocoon of the parasite that killed the caterpillar.
I'm not entirely sure of the subspecies. They are tiny, adorable, and really favor tansy.
Females do not, actually, have the orange tips on their wings, but the patterns on the underside are gorgeous.
Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes). They're cute as heck so I'm gonna be stalking their foraging area.
Grey backed mining bee (Andrena vaga) waiting for me to get away from her nest.
You drive through the fields and spot a dishevelled young woman hunching over roadkill, reaching into the corpse with pliers as flies buzz around her. You accidentally make eye contact just as she - grinning - drops a writhing maggot into a translucent plastic bottle.
I got myself extension tubes and it just happened to be THE season.
The only reason I didn't impulse buy a teleconverter to tack on my impulse bought 600mm is that it would just get me (more) underexposed pictures. But the urge is real, and we don't even have bald eagles around here.
I saw some active webrings on neocities sites!
All I can find is this: https://askentomologists.com/2015/02/25/through-the-compound-eye/ (and it's pretty interesting, tbh)
I saw php error logs cause a full disk in a few minutes (thankfully on a shared dev server), thanks to an accidental endless loop that just flooded everything with a wall of notices...
And, working with a CMS that allows third-party plugins that don't bother to catch exceptions, aggressive web crawlers are not a good thing to encounter on a weekend... 1 exception x 400000 product pages makes for a loooot of text.
Some kind of stink bug. No precise ID since the identification apps say the nymphs are a species that does not match the eggs at all.
Edit: Nezara viridula
Absolutely precious. That tiny beak!
A index.html file that says "There's nothing here". Not even a special http status. I have subdomains with freshrss, dokuwiki, XBackBone, and whatever I'm tinkering with, but I can't be bothered to maintain anything public. I guess I have personal websites I haven't touched since 2012?
"We will take facebook pixel and tiktok and klaviyo for the events, and oh our chatbot, google analytics, this other analytics thing, and..."
I routinely have murderous urges. Ma'am, your site crashes my 6yo phone's browser. Stop. I beg you.
Great!
I was compiling a list of news and magazines feeds. It's far from complete, I don't know if it can help but here is the opml.
There is a lot of overlap between the feeds included because I grabbed the main feed and the categories wherever I could.
Thank you! A proper camera (R7) with a 85mm lens :) I know some people manage great macro with their phones, but I couldn't have gotten close enough with a phone, the bees hurried back into their tunnels whenever I got near.