Close-ups: Bugs

This gallery contains close-up photos of insects, spiders, and other "bugs."

We have several other galleries of close-up and macro photos. You can access them from the Galleries page.

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A banded garden spider, on the web she's spun in tall weeds, grass, and bull thistle.

A tiny crab spider on a serviceberry blossom in early morning sunshine in May.

A honey bee in in early morning sun in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park in northeastern Ohio.

A common ringlet, a small butterfly which really is common here in western Montana, on dianthus.

An Aphrodite Fritillary (possibly) butterfly (Speyeria aphrodite) on a warm July morning.

A black meadowhawk dragonfly (sympetrum danae) warms in morning sun.