A closer look at some of the smaller things that creep, crawl, fly, burrow, bite, sting, swim and float.
A dragonfly hunts on the wing. (Bradenton, FL)
Eastern Lubber Grasshopper portrait. (Bradenton, FL)
A bee admires its reflection on a window. (Bradenton, FL)
A Spotted Orb Weaver spider performs web maintenance. (Springfield, VA)
A Spotted Orb Weaver spider builds back better. (Springfield, VA)
A Spotted Orb Weaver spider is silhouetted against a full moon. (Springfield, VA)
A Blue-black Spider Wasp tows a paralyzed Wolf Spider across a marsh pond, presumably to a burrow on the other side where it will lay an egg on the paralyzed spider. Then the wasp will cover the burrow and allow the wasp larva to grow while feeding on the spider. (Lorton, VA)
A Larger Elm Leaf Beetle commences take-off. (Shenandoah National Park, VA)
Banded Sugar Ants belly up to the trough for a final meal. (Springfield, VA)
A Dance Fly pollinates a Dandelion flower. (Springfield, VA)
A Flea Beetle on a Spring Cress flower. (Springfield, VA)
A cicada skeleton. (Springfield, VA)
A gnat on a wild blackberry leaf. (Springfield, VA)
A Pollen Beetle eats pollen from the anther of a wild Multiflora Rose bloom. (Springfield, VA)
A Carpenter Ant forages on a leaf. (Springfield, VA)
Asian Lady Beetles mate. (Springfield, VA)
A male Ebony Jewelwing Damselfly. (Springfield, VA)
An Orchard Spider weaves its web in morning light. (Alexandria, VA)
Great Spangled Fritillary Butterflies feed on a Purple Milkweed. (Alexandria, VA)
A large Yellow Jacket Hoverfly feeds on a Prairie Rose (Climbing Rose) while a smaller type of the insect hovers nearby. (Alexandria, VA)
A Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly. (Alexandria, VA)
A Barn Spider does web repairs. (Alexandria, VA)
A Horsefly walks into a bar. The bartender asks him, "Why the round face?" (Alexandria, VA)
A Spined Micrathena spider waits for a dinner guest to drop by. (Alexandria, VA)
A female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly feeds on Bearded Beggarticks. (Shenandoah National Park, VA)
A male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly feeds on Field Thistle. (Shenandoah National Park, VA)
A Praying Mantis sizes up a photographer. (Alexandria, VA)
A spider of many names, here we'll call it a Garden Spider. (Alexandria, VA)
A Flesh Fly does calisthenics. (Springfield, VA)
A European Hornet eyeballs a Picture-WIng fly as the hornet exits from the feeding hole of a hummingbird feeder. (Springfield, VA)
A European Hornet passes off food to take back to the nest. (Springfield, VA)
A Common Water Strider strides on water. (Lost River State Park, WV)
A Crane Fly on my window. How could I not photograph it? (Springfield, VA)
