This one works very well, and the title gets the viewer thinking. Great image, Mike!

Very nice longhorn beetle image! He's got a lot of personality.

Beautiful! Great colors and sharpness, and I like the texture the little depressed dots provide. Very nice image.

Nice work, Tom, there is some great detail visible here. The two things I would think about coming from an aphid's but would be, honey dew, or a newborn aphid. Honeydew usually looks like a large, clear, round drop. The live-birth aphids I have seen were larger than this, and looked more obviously l...

Wonder if the spines a nasty chemical associated with them? They are bad enough without!

I do like the repost a lot better. The dark background on the first post made it hard to see the caterpillar.

Nice one!

Well all I can say is, this is a member of the True Bugs, and it is a juvenile (a nymph). The little black spots near its middle legs are its developing wings. The flash does seem a little harsh. Before investing a lot of money you might try a cheaper fix. Maybe some gauze over the flash head, or ma...

I go with your original diagnosis of beetle. Very very nice image, and of course it is a "side of beetles we don't usually see," much less photograph. It's a funny coincidence, because today on another website I saw a beetle (firefly) someone had photographed while the beetle was in a jar. That phot...

Beautiful image! I like the colors on the creature, and the way the antennae are ringed all the way up. Would also like to see his head in profile; did you get any shots like that? Most of these guys have profiles that look like a horse's head. As for ID, well you're right, it is definitely some kin...

Jeroen, another nice one, and the light-colored background is different and sets your image apart. I think you can squeeze a little more DOF out of your camera. On this image, I think you either could have more of the legs in focus, or else have some of the bristles on the back in focus. The apertur...

Found this caterpillar in the Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge here in West Virginia. This was in late August. These imperial moth caterpillars are usually green, sometimes brown, but somehow I stumbled across a reddish-orange one. Can't find any mentions of red ones in the field guides, ...

Terrific—if a little disturbing—image. Wheel bugs are very photogenic, and wheel bug shot is one of the best. Nice work!

Fantastic detail—look at those bristles! There does seem to be some "digital grain" present. This may have resulted from too high an ISO setting, or from over-sharpening. There are various techniques for getting rid of this. In PhotoShop, using Filter-Noise-Despeckle often helps. There are also tech...

Very brave to get this close to a wasp. Still, it looks like her mind was on other things.

Nice photo, and no, not too grisly, even as I'm eating breakfast at the computer!

Very nice use of this technique, and a nice image overall. The lighting is nice and moody—although to see the bug better you would want to use flash, or you could use a reflector to improve on the natural light. I think you have just enough DOF here to work. You made the process more difficult by ph...

Fantastic! Sharp and nicely lit, shows off the gills very well.

I take it the flash was well off to the side, angled toward the aquarium, and thus didn't cause a glare on the glass?