Milkweed bug, which I found on milkweed.
Experts classify these as true bugs, which means they are not posers like the other bugs.
Little skipper butterfly staring at you, while eating.
Side view of a little skipper butterfly. Look at the proboscis!
I believe this is a Reakirt's blue butterfly. I don't know who Reakirt is.
A different kind of tiny skipper butterfly.
This really tiny bee is an orchard bee. It is even tinier than the milkweed flower.
This insect, which is not a bee, is a hoverfly.
This is a blue-winged scoliid wasp. They are known primarily for the extra "i" in their name.
These are macro photos using my Nikkor 60mm macro lens. Macrophotography is the art of photographing something really small and making it look big. If I had a bigger lens, I could make them look really big.
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