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OK, it has been way too long since I posted anything substantial. This time, however, I have a pretty good excuse for my lack of productivity: two weeks ago I lost my job. After 13 years with the...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2014/07/16/jumping-spider-eating-cricket-test-of-new-flash-bracket-and-diffuser/

  Once again I’m writing about one critter eating another… The video below shows a tiny juvenile Central American harvestmen (Acromares vittatum) very rapidly devouring a chironomid midge (l...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/video-tiny-tropical-harvestman-eating-midge/

I’ve come to realize that I take great pleasure in photographing animals when they are feeding…especially if the critter in question is a predator (and the food, obviously, is its prey). Part...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2014/06/13/whip-scorpion-meets-cricket/

Last weekend I was enjoying the beautiful weather by preparing a nice BBQ dinner for the family. We had just sat down at the table (out on the deck) when my youngest son pointed out a “spider c...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/a-jumping-spider-joins-the-family-bbq/

  I haven’t posted a “Flyday” for a very long time. Originally, my goal was to post a different fly photo every Friday , but I dropped that ball a long time ago. Sigh… A little warning, ...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/flyday-april-11-2014-the-fantastic-and-fenominal-filth-fly/

I have to say, I’m really digging this picture of a bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata). The cool thing is that I barely remember taking it last summer. As I noted in my previous post, ...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/portrait-of-a-bald-faced-hornet/

When in doubt, post a picture of a flesh fly…  There is no real story to go with this picture. It’s just another photo of a beautiful red-eyed flesh fly (Sarcophaga sp.) feeding on a salmon ...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/flyday-august-23-2013-portrait-of-a-flesh-fly/

Where I make my first porno film…  We had just finished dinner a couple of days ago when my youngest son (six) looked out through the sliding glass door and told me that there was a really big...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/video-half-black-bumble-bees-mating/

The horror!  Out on the back deck of my house I have two large saucers that hold a number of small pots of carnivorous plants. Most of the plants are Venus flytraps (Dionaea muscipula) and sunde...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/flyday-august-16-2013-a-midge-massacre/

TGIF: Thank God its Flyday! I don’t have much of a story to go with this photo today. It’s just another nice photo of a greenbottle (Lucilia sericata)—my favourite fly species feeding on sa...

https://macrocritters.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/flyday-august-9-2013-greenbottle-on-red-salmon/