A Closer Look at Garden Insects

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I love examaming my garden and finding all kinds of insects & I thought id share some photos!
first the pray mantis
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baby mantis
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spiders
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horn worm
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dragon fly
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[vintagejuls]

OMG! Awesome shots... are you a photographer? If not, maybe you should be...

[tomf]

Nice close ups, I want to get a macro lens.

[hendi_alex]

Nice photos!

[top_dollar_bread]

OMG! Awesome shots... are you a photographer? If not, maybe you should be...

Thank you & no I'm not a photographer, just bored with a camera

Nice close ups, I want to get a macro lens.

A macro lens would be cool, my zoom on the camera works pretty well but I could only imagine how closer I can get

Nice photos!

THanks alex,ill posting up more soon!!

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harlequin bug??
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?? been feeding them to my the mantis’s

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some flying insects
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pretty sure its an aphid
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hungy hungry mantis

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I love these guys, I literally hand feed the larder ones

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I'm guessing its some sort of leaf hoppr,I like its colors and its impact on my plants is very small (its a keeper)

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Found this guy once eating my basils, so I threw it over my brick wall(to my neighbor) & I found him the next day, again in my basils (this time he was in the cinnamon basils)

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don't know what this is?? found this critter eating my pepper leafs...first thought it was a squash bug but I'm pretty sure it isnt....any help identifying please

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cocoons.....all caterpillars, horn worms get moved to my extremely healthy and over grown tomato plant...Its been a home for many of my garden insects and will be destroyed soon going to have a huge amount of leafs andlots of unriped tomatoes in my compost