
Kind of a riotous little collection of critters in this 6.5 mm field width!
I suspect the gardeners in my family will not allow this situation to continue much longer. But since this is what we have right now, I thought I'd share it with my friends here at photomacrography.net.

This is a 20-frame stack of live bugs, and yep, they were moving around a fair amount.
Click HERE to see the stack converted to a QuickTime movie loop (1.3 MB). The still image shown above is rotated 180 degrees from the original stack orientation shown in the movie.
Due to the movement, there were quite a few ghosts and echos in the stacked result produced just by the software. Fortunately the ZS retouching facility makes it fast and easy to find the right bits to brush in to fix those.
Hope you enjoy -- I had fun making it!
--Rik
Technical: Canon 300D camera with Olympus 38 mm f/2.8 bellows macro lens at f/11, about 2X onto the sensor (effective f/33). Dual fiber halogen illuminator, no added diffusion. 20 frames at 0.010" focus step. Zerene Stacker DMap with retouching from source frames.