Really I should be using my monopod more. 
Anyway I did not like the color as it was and I played with these images quite a bit until I got them somewhat to where I liked them. The blue channel of the image was pulled down slightly, giving it a more of a green tint but making the background colors a bit more pastel, which I liked and seemed to soften the lighting just a little. Now there may be some who think otherwise and of course everyone is a critic and entitled to their opinions but I rather like these and I do think the second one could be a little sharper with a bit more depth of field.
EOS 20D
Manual mode, hand held, no flash
1/250 sec. @ f/5 ISO 400
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro
Midday, sunny, in shade
(Image data, same as above)
Selective focus here, I really don't like the antennae to the left being head on but you have to take what you can get and sometimes you don't really notice a lot of things until you get the image downloaded and can take a good hard look at things. Again a tripod or the use of a monopod could have helped to improve the sharpness of this image, I believe, since I was not using a flash nor had the lens stopped down sufficently for a better DOF.
I remember folks talking about "Blister Beetles" back when I was a kid but never knew or gave any thought to what they were. The name sounded pretty much self explanatory to me so I never persued one to find out just how it came by that name and being a "toe-headed" young boy running bare foot through the foothills of East Tennessee, blisters were pretty much a common and painful thing as they were. No sense in getting a few more from a bug. 
Thanks Sue 
