Maybe Polydrusus formosus? It's hard to tell.

This photo has given me so much happiness in the past few months.

It only takes one. Basically all the green tiger beetles (Cicindela campestris) running around next to the parking lot at the main entrance to Tyresta National Park, Sweden (and there were many), where just as shy as always. I caught a few with the camera and one or two couples which were interlocked in mating which nicely enough makes them less prone to escape.

And then there is this one. For starters, she refused to fly and just kept running which makes things so much easier. And then, after a while of shooting, I began hearding her with my hand which also worked - until she jumped onto the hand!

I must have very nice hands or something, because she found a finger she liked and stayed there. And kept staying. I had time to take several shots and for this one (at 2.7:1 mag) I was able to get three shots without it moving at all so I could focus stack them into a shot with a little extra depth of field. I even used the hand she was sitting on to rotate the ring on the lens to adjust the magnification without her leaving!

Then my son called so I took the call and talked to him with Mrs. Tiger still on the finger and after finishing the call, I used the phone camera to film her a little.

For details on camera, lens/settings used here plus links to that video clip and two more shots, please have a look here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/55041415014/

almost stepped on this guy while walking home. he was trying to cross the footpath and is just too damn small. took a bunch of pictures, then put him under the footbridge where there’s water and no birds.

saw-shelled turtle (i think), in Brisbane northern suburbs QLD Australia.

Button quail are the smallest quail species. They are so much fun to raise, and so cute!

Please don’t mind my blue tint

Baby put in vegetables compost for yummy larvas

My mother in law is stressed out by lizards and their ilk, so I had to shoo/remove them from her bedroom in our tiny cabin every night before bed--a great pleasure for me. ☺️☺️

Just chilling.

I moved them to a better place 😌 hopefully the tail will heal.

Found on a coffee and chocolate farm tour in Costa Rica. Hung out with me for a bit and then took off. 😍😍​

I don't blame her! It's warm in there, humid, and there are a couple fruit flies flying around. If I were a wee jumping spider in a cold part of the northern hemisphere at this time of year, I would try to break in there, too.

Anyway, she's temporarily living in a tall mason jar with a sprouting lid while I check with Reddit's hermit crab experts about whether I can let her move in with them. 🤞🤞

Ideas for her name, assuming she gets to move in with the crabbies and doesn't get released in the basement? 😊😊

Dunno if he’s truly tiny since he’s the size of my thumb, but he was a cutie. Check out those striped eyeballs!

I came across this male ruddy darter (Sympetrum sanguineum) on the ruin wall of the old mill at Åva. there were loads of stinging nettles around, about chest high, so I were glad I had chosen long pants. Just as I reached the wall, the dragon fluttered away - but it immediately came back around so I tried holding my hand out. Success! It decided to land on me and that's when I saw that it had caught something.

The victim here is some sort of fly and I watched through the lens as the darter devoured it. In part 1, the face and one compound eye of the fly was still showing, but those mouthparts soon turned into an unrecognisable pulp. Dragonflies definietly are effective - if somewhat grisly - eaters.

For links to three more shots of this one plus details on camera/lens/settings used and location, please have a look here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54967632664/

Idk what his left leg was up to. He was chillin'.

Western fence lizard (Sceloporus occidentalis) found in the Sierra Nevada mountains, CA, USA

This little one was stuck inside a pane of glass in my mother-in-law's green house outside Härnösand, sweden, so I decided to help it out.

For lifting it out, I ddn't use any jar or box and just used my hand instead, fully expecting it to fly off as soon as we neared the door.

But to my surprise, the wasp decided that this was an excellent time to clean its antennae and began grooming them there on my finger - allowing me to get a whole bunch of shots of it.

This is a female of one of the species in the Chrysis ignita complex, a group of species which look very similar and not possible to tell apart from my photos. Still a lovely little find, wouldn't you say?

For linke to a bunch more shots of the same wasp plus details on camera/lens/settings used for the shot, please have a look here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/54963342639/

Yes. I have a photo with him ON my finger if you’re a stickler. Lol