Happy Monday! I hope you’re having a great 2024 so far, I can’t believe it’s March already?! What?! Today’s photo is of a subalpine green cicada, just hanging out on an echinacea flower. Subalpine green cicadas, which is a species … Continue reading
Happy Monday! I hope you’re well. Today’s photo is of the beautiful Eleven-Spotted Ladybird – Coccinella undecimpunctata. Originally from the northern hemisphere but now widespread throughout New Zealand, supposedly introduced in 1874 by the Canterbury Acclimatization Society (which would make … Continue reading
Happy Monday! Today’s photo is of the beautiful Pinguicula x Weser (Butterwort/Carnivorous Plant), which is is a hybrid of P. ehlersiae and P. moranensis. Registered as a cultivar in 1998, it received its name after a the River Weser in … Continue reading
Happy Monday! This magnificent little dude is a Zorion australe aka Flower longhorn beetle which is endemic to New Zealand. You’ll find Some cool facts about Zorion/longhorn beetles on this page, they include but aren’t limited to, Super excited to … Continue reading
Happy Monday! Wow February already!? Hope your 2024 is going well so far. Today’s photo is the tropical sundew Drosera Nidiformis, indigenous to KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, uncurling its beautiful spiral flower stem. Which will eventually show lovely pink flowers. … Continue reading
Happy Monday! It’s currently 11:52pm so I am cutting this one super fine but it’s been a wee bit of a busy day. Today’s photo is of the beautiful Hemiandrus maia, the Otago ground wētā, which is a species of … Continue reading
Happy Monday! I hope you’re well. 🙂 Eve rescued this little guy (she calls them “wee beedles”) from one of our rain water collection buckets. I couldn’t resist taking a couple of quick photographs before finding it a safe place … Continue reading
Happy Monday! I couldn’t decide which of these two photos to use today so I’m using both. My husband found this beautiful little nymph out in the garden and brought it in to show me. It’s been interesting reading about … Continue reading
Happy Monday! I found this guy (dead, unfortunately) under my house about a year ago and I’ve been meaning to take photos of it ever since and finally got around to it. And wow I am so glad I did, … Continue reading
Happy Monday! I thought I’d start a thing where I post macro photos on Mondays, today’s photo is of what I think are moth eggs, if anyone can identify exactly what they are? That would be awesome! 🙂
Becca Muir Photography 