Spiders and Insects
The world of insects is amazing in its variety of colors, shapes and species, and at times can be quite dramatic.
Anise Swallowtail
Chrysalis of Anise Swallowtail
Ant Trying to Harvest a Longhorn Beetle
Beautiful Bee
Ladybug Nymph Eating Apids
Ant with Ladybug Nymph. Ants cultivate aphids and milk them for honeydew, so this ant is likely trying to discourage the ladybug nymph from eating them.
Ants Attacking Caterpillar
Bee in Pink Flowers
Blue and Green Dragonfly
Cedar Hairstreak
Branded Skipper -- oddly iridescent blue
Branded Skipper -- Perhaps the blue iridescence is from the flowers it's been feeding on, because it is not the normal color for this species.
Cardinal Meadowhawk
Crab Spider on Candystick
Claudius Parnassian Butterfly
Skipper Butterfly Captured by a Crab Spider
A Face only a Mother Could Love -- small fly species
Cricket
Wee Jumping Spider
A Perfect Heart -- Damselflies
Eight-spot Dragonfly
Eight-spot Dragonfly 2
Bug Wars -- Episyron Wasp with paralyzed Orb Spider
Buprespid Beetle -- a wood borer
A Golden Female Dragonfly
Hover -- a Blue Darner Dragonfly
Grasshopper on Apple Tree
Grey Hairstreak Butterfly
Horned Spanworm Moth
Sweat Fly on Tansy
Longhorn Beetles
The Biggest, Ugliest Fly I Have Ever Seen
Klamath Beetle About to Take Flight
Ladybug Eating an Aphid
Milbert's Tortoiseshell
Lophocampa Immaculata
Lorquin's Admiral
Alpine Coppers
Northern Frittilary Showing Under Wings
Northern Frittilary on Douglas Aster
An odd, unidentified fly with a flattened abdomen
A Millipede Attacking an Earthworm
Lophocampa Roseate
Vampire Moth?
Flies feeding on the remains of a Prometheus Moth
Pacific Frittilary
Painted Lady Butterfly
Pale Swallowtail
Sara Orangetip Butterfly
Pink-edged Sulphur Butterfly
Skipper Butterfly
Cute Face -- Skipper Butterfly
Ichneumon Wasp
Sharing a Flower With a Friend
Snake Fly
Snake Fly 2
Mating Dance
Spider With Fly
Curious Spider
Jumping Spider 2
Spring Azure Butterfly
Sweetheart Underwing Moth
My Flower! -- Anise Swallowtails
Claudius Parnassian butterfly sharing with a bee.
Unknown Moth on Japanese Maple
Another Unknown Moth on Japanese Maple
Weevil on Daisy
Western Swallowtail
Yellow Crab Spider
Pine Elfin Butterfly