I finally got around uploading my favorites of last year, trimmed them down to about 80 photos which are in most part from a few weeks in Ecuador the beginning of the year, as always detailed insect macrophotography and spiders make the bulk of the gallery.
Almost all macros that year were taken with the new Laowa 50mm on either my Olympus EPL5 or EM5, and for a change, bird photography was done back with my Canon 70-300 5.6 IS adapted to M4/3 which turned out unexpectedly great, this shall be the theme of a coming post.
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2021
Cupiennius wandering spider
Andean cock of the rock
Lichen stick bug
Green eyed katydid
Harvestman preying on a plant hopper
Wasp parasited by entomopathogenic fungus
Army ants attacking a rival species
Pustulous-looking harvestman
Stick bug close-up
Army ants guarding their prey cache of larva and pupae
Diaphorolepis shadow snake
Harvestman guarding eggs, with embryos visible
Anaptomecus hunstman spider
A harvestman glowing in UV light
Unidentified coccoon with resin lattice
Mating lichen stick bugs
Habitat shot of Mindo’s cloud forest
Teal and blue glitter weevil
Cupiennius wandering spider
Acanthocteninae wandering spider
Cupiennius found post moult with blueish legs
False eye pattern on a butterfly wing
Yellow harvestman portrait
Huntsman spider guarding an eggsac
Harvestman preying on a green planthopper
Rainfrog vocalizing with inflated vocal sac
Ghost spider with prey
Details of a millipede
Harvestman foraging on the leaflitter
Mindo cloud forest
White fronted capuchin
Micro orchid flowers
A juvenile crab spider hanging on a web
Lichen camouflaged stick bug on a fern leaf
Harvestman guarding eggs underneath a leaf
Hackled orb weaver, a venomless spider
Portrait of a harvestman
Recently hatched young harvestmen
Spiny devil katydid
Portrait of a horned darkling beetle
Chrysso spider with spiderlings
Red and blue flea beetle
Flurescence of a harvestman on a tree trunk
Side portrait of a rainfrog
Harvestman carrying Chloropidae fly pupae parasites
Plated millipede exploring the forest floor
A spined katydid nymph with blue spikes
Frontal portrait of a unusually patterned rainfrog
Cobweb spider opening her eggsac
A katydid finishing it’s moult process
Red and black millipede on the leaflitter
Yellow fungi growing on a tree trunk
White necked jacobin in flight
Tawny bellied hermit in flight
Campbell’s toadheaded viper
White mushrooms on a rotting branch
A juvenile anolis on the same leaf as a planthopper
White mushroom on the forest floor
Gagrellinae harvestman preying on a planthopper
Paratropis, a primitive spider
A puprle fungus beetle
Cupiennius wandering spider found post moult
Mushroom with a water droplet over it
A metallic blue leaf beetle
A young Anolis
Portrait of a young amblypygi
Portrait of a green glass frog
Micro orchid found in Mindo Valley
Stingless bee hive found on the forest floor
Portrait of an army ant major soldier
Portrait of a stick bug
Crab spider feeding on a wild bee
Fluorescence of a crab spider eating a stingless bee
Brazilian porcupine
Metallic orchid bee
A jumping spider feeding on a dengue mosquito
Green jumping spider
A jararaca pit viper over water