Micromeraviglie by Nicola Zagari: macro

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Chrysomela populi laying eggs

A nice Chrysomela populi laying eggs. Well I took this picture on the Easter sunday... are those Easter eggs? Stupid joke. Anyway do you want to know what is the step before laying eggs? Then take a look at this here. Thanks for watching!

Pisaura mirabilis or the "nursery web spider"

This is a Pisauridae, Pisaura mirabilis I suppose, and it's a female carrying her eggs.

But where is she going? Well these spiders glue their eggs to plant leaves and make a web around as protection until the newborns will go out.

This is why they are sometimes called the nursery web spiders.
I put here other two pictures of the same spider.

Melolontha melolontha

Hey there, do you recognize him?

The antennae are so evident that it's easy to say our friend is a cockchafer, or May bug or Maggiolino in Italian, a big beetle which almost diseapperead some decades ago because of the use of DDT and other pesticides. Now it's getting a bit more common again but it still has one big enemy: artificial lighting. Its orientation system cannot cope with it and that's why this morning I found this guy (it's a male, 7 leaves on the antennae instead of 6 for the females) crawling on the grass like if it was drunk (see pic below). It was right below a big light where yesterday night it most likely crashed into many times.

After some time it managed to fly away but I had enough time to take another funny picture.

Sympetrum sanguineum

OK, sometimes i want to be a bit artistic... let's go back to reality.

A very quiet dragonfly that was patient enough to let me take a couple of hundreds of photos. You should be happy that I am posting only three of them! Please click to zoom! I don't care about the number of visits, I don't have any advertisement to make money with but if you don't zoom in you loose too many cool details!

Phaneroptera nana (adult)

Ages ago I posted a pic of a young grasshopper that made me spend a lot of time to understand what the hell of species it was. The adult instead is very easy to identify and it's quite a big insect, don't ask me why it's called "nana" (dwarf).

Rhagonycha fulva

An acrobatic "ménage à trois" :)

Misumena vatia

If you are a fly or a bee and you are landing on the wrong flower, the last thing you can see will be something like this:

It's a spider that can rapidly change colour to be absolutely invisible and instead of spinning a web he will just wait. It can catch preys way bigger than him as in this photo I took long time ago in Sicily. And don't tell me it's scary because it is only few millimeters big :)

Oryctes nasicornis larva

I was walking toward Civita di Bagnoregio, one of the most beatiful places I've ever seen and I run into this monster about 8 cm big. It was on the side of the street, no idea how it arrived there but it was not looking so happy of being there... anyway it is a rhinoceros beetle, yes, this one: just a bit younger. The funny thing is that when it becomes adult he cannot eat anymore, he will not even have a mouth. he will be only able to fly and to look for "love". He has few weeks to find a partner and reproduce then time is over...

bye bye