No, please, don't get embarressed because of the vast amount of knowledge waiting for you. I would rather inspire you to look for used and discounted handbooks and keys covering different fields of nature and enjoy the help from experienced people. I really believe the world need more natural genera...

Very beautiful and interesting.
I wonder if theese creatures are rare or my eyes just have to learn to tune in on them.

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Markus, You pushed me to the shelf of handbooks to take a closer look for identification. I have my doubt about your suggestion of Armillaria. The Danish species of Honey fungus have thin lamellas and are more brownish. And most of them grow on tree roots, not in open land. After scanning through my...

I tend to agree with Mark. The bugs have just started the wax production. I am quite shure they will be completely covered with white fur after a few days.

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And very important:
What is the travel distance per rotation of the spindle?

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A pair of tiny mushrooms in the heather hills. [Edit:] Confirmed that this is Cuphophyllus virgineus [end Edit] http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/userpix/5507_Snehvid_vokshat_20161030_RZ1024_1.jpg A handheld stack of 24 exp. at 1/180 sec. f/3.5 with Olympus 50 mm macro lens. Natural light. I sup...

Google is fine for common problems and common questions. For special photographic topics www.photomacrography.net is better. Searching this site for "cleaning insects" gave me 9 hits. Here are the most relevant looking threads: What do you use to clean your objects. Cleaning insects - two good artic...

Agree with Pau. Most bacteria are too small to be visible even at 50x magnification.
Some species of fungi specialize in paralyzing the insect and fix it in a position suitable for dispersing the spores before it dies of the infection.

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A great collembola party.

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Looks great thanks to very well placed focus plane: Sharpness cover abdomen pattern, eyes, several legs and a thread in one shot (I suppose).

Getting a little closer would make it even more impressive.
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That makes me wonder as to why the bees don't attack the larvae since they are acting as parasites in the nest or hive. Is it any particular species of bees or just bees in general? I really don't know. I am no expert in beetles. Just curious. Nature always make me wondering. I am convinced that is...

Yes, and when a whole family is named after a genus it is done by adding "-aceae" (or "-ceae") to the genus name.
In most species white milk poures out when a leaf or stem is broken.

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His pictures are very catching and many of them simply beautiful. A few of them are just a bit too artificial and elaborated for my taste. Part of his secret is apparently working with fast telelenses wide open and with a carefull selection af backgrounds and special light conditions. The unknown fa...

Interesting picture of the Meloe larvae. I have frequently seen the adult females in the early spring i Denmark. But never the larvae. The female is so fat beceause she carries around a thousand eggs she is going to burry in the soil. The first instar of the larvae is so different from the adult tha...

Interesting.
They are definitely of organic origin. But from which kind of organisms?
Foraminifers? Corals? Echinoderms?

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