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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 07/10/2026

If you're thinking - wasn't #bienstag yesterday? Well, it's #waspWednesday and this clearly isn't a photo of a bumblebee, it's a photo of a really tiny wasp perched on a petal at top. The bee's just there for scale. #Derbyshire, October 2026. #insects #bees #wasps #macrophotography

Close-up of a red and purple fuchsia flower hanging downwards, with a blonde, fluffy bumblebee burying its head in the purple bell of the flower, forelegs grasping it tightly, rear legs with tightly packed masses of yellow pollen. On one of the splayed-out red petals at top, a tiny bronze wasp sits in the autumnal sunshine.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 30/09/2026

For #waspWednesday - from August, an adorable Isodontia elegans, elegant grass-carrying wasp at #Seattle's #waspHeaven in #VolunteerPark, with her (or one of her sisters) building a nest for her babies with the dried grass, between the bricks of the water tower... #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Slender, brown-yellow wasp with translucent brown wings, on unfurling yellow-green leaves - gleaming black eyes looking towards the camera, long segmented antennae downwards and together.

Similar wasp, from the side and rear showing thread-like waist and striped yellow-red-black teardrop-shaped abdomen, packing strands of pale dry grass into a gap between dark bricks.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 29/09/2026

For #textureTuesday - more from the neglected negatives from #Seattle, late 2014, digitised with a digital camera, a macro lens, a film holder bodged together with Lego and a small LED panel light... #blackAndWhitePhotography #filmIsNotDead

Off-kilter view of alternating rows of square and smaller, rectangular blocks, horizontally ridged - cemented into slightly wavy lines with a concrete beam running vertically down, flush with the blocks. High-contrast black-and-white, oblique sunshine accentuating the slight surface topography.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 28/09/2026

Some autumnal #Derbyshire #butterflies for #macroMonday, from about a week ago. Vanessa atalanta, the Red Admiral, and possibly a male Celastrina argiolus, the Holly Blue? #insects #macrophotography #naturePhotography

Butterfly with wings outstretched, black-brown with red and white patterning around the edges - head, hairy body and abdomen aligned, complex eyes facing forwards, stripy white-and-black antennae leaning forwards - as it perches on an ivy flower in the autumn sunshine.

Small butterfly on green leaf in autumn sun - ragged wings partly folded, grey-white and violet blue with faded black edges, beady black compound eyes and dark, filamentous antennae with faint striping.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 22/09/2026

Bonus dragonfly shots from the other day. Aeshna cyanea, the Southern Hawker? #Derbyshire, September 2026. #insects #dragonflies #macrophotography #naturePhotography

Close-up of the head and thorax of a large dragonfly in autumn sun - bristly, dark legs grasping a part-shrivelled leaf. Large wrap-around eyes blue and grey-black, gleaming with optical depth - made from countless tiny lenses packed together in a hexagonal pattern. Front of head yellow with black spots - edged with short black hairs - and thorax yellow-green with thin dark stripes, with lighter curly hairs. At the centre of the thorax, four glittering, faceted, translucent wings erupt from a hollow - reaching out of view and out of focus.

Wider view of the whole dragonfly, wings outstretched - translucent facets almost grey-blue with possible age.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 29/08/2026

#FotoVorschlag - "Rückseite / Back, rear" I'm reminded of my 'Car arses' keyword in Lightroom. #SanFrancisco, June 2007...

Rear right corner of a very '70s-'80s American car - bright white paint with fine red outlining, big chrome bumper reflecting a sunny blue sky, angular rear red light (surrounded by chrome, naturally), flowing chrome-edged text reading "Grand Marquis", and rather incongruous 'GB' roundel and 'HORSE PERSON' stickers on the bumper.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 27/08/2026

For #doorsday - satirical fly-posting from during a big construction boom in #Seattle's Capitol Hill, 2014 or so. (Honestly, that looks like good value these days...) #doors #blackAndWhitePhotography #filmIsNotDead

Inset, blocked-off doorway in older commercial building on city street - small covered space in front of door, surrounded by small graffiti on windows, with hand-drawn poster. Black text on white background, "THIS STUDIO APT. AVAILABLE - 10 SQ. FT. - $1850 MO. - PARK VIEW! - AIR CONDITIONED - LEGENDARY CAP HILL LOCATION"

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 25/08/2026

For #textureTuesday - more from those neglected, self-processed, decade-old film negatives, newly digitised through the magic of Lego, a macro lens and a digital camera. (Many of these I'd only ever seen as tiny contact prints!) #Seattle #filmIsNotDead #blackAndWhitePhotography

Diagonal, plaster-revealing scar on old painted wall, revealing the former presence of a staircase - a dramatic shadow cast from the side, and the word 'SAVE' roughly spray-painted on a clear area.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 24/08/2026

#FotoVorschlag - "Leuchtturm / Lighthouse" Massive chalk cliffs - and somewhat smaller lighthouse - at #BeachyHead, East Sussex. September 2007. #lighthouses #cliffs #coast

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 24/08/2026

For #monochromeMonday - shadows in Capitol Hill, #Seattle, late 2014? Digitising some old negatives with the aid of Lego, an LED area light, a macro lens and a digital camera... #blackAndWhitePhotography #filmIsNotDead

Oblique shadows from foliage on painted wall, converting to dappled shade on concrete pavement.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 24/08/2026

I remembered a stack of film negatives I took during photography courses a decade ago. Cue film holder bodged together with Lego, LED area light, digital camera with macro lens, and some scratty end-of-roll negatives. Test successful - expect more! #Seattle #filmIsNotDead #blackAndWhitePhotography

Abstract shadows on angled, smooth surface with peeling paint - grainy black and white photo.

Corner with graffiti-spattered brickwork and semi-arched sash window, above sheeting and concrete forms of deep modern construction work.

Torn insulation in wooden framing of part-demolished wall, in front of scattered, broken concrete.

Shallow depth of field oblique photo of ivy on cinderblock wall - with out-of-focus rectangular windows and doors in background.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 12/08/2026

For #waspWednesday - mystery wasp, with possible shieldbug / stinkbug prey, from the ever-bountiful #waspHeaven, #VolunteerPark #Seattle. Prionyx sp.? Sphex lucae? I'm not sure either are supposed to be preying on the pentatomidae - I need to ID this other bug! #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Muscular black wasp with fine silvery hairs and teardrop-shaped, glossy orange abdomen - wings folded, black eyes gleaming in the sun - upside-down pale insect grasped underneath its body, one if its antennae held in the wasp's jaws. On a green bramble leaf in the sunshine.

Same wasp, different angle - I inadvertently waggled the ground-level bramble around by stepping on a long trailing branch, but the wasp was absolutely staying put - no losing its prey!

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 10/08/2026

In #Seattle for a bit - and yesterday I made it to '#waspHeaven' in #VolunteerPark (middle path around the water tower) to see if there were any wasps around. There certainly were! Grass-carrying wasp, Isodontia elegans, collecting a blade of grass... #macroMonday #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Slender, thread-waisted wasp - black and red with a golden yellow fuzz - intently chewing through a bent-over, drying grass stem, carefully grasping either side with daintily clawed feet.

Same wasp, looking away from camera, putting some effort into the grass collection - glossy red-brown transparent wings outstretched, rearmost feet curled around the grass stem,.

Same wasp, grass stem completely chewed through - all weight supported by middle legs holding on to the near-upright remaining grass stem, while jaws and other legs hold on to the newly detached section.

Wings and wasp a blur - rising upwards, grass stem payload firmly grasped.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 28/07/2026

For #textureTuesday and/or #sporespondence - a close-up of some curiously peeling bracket fungus I took months ago, but kept forgetting to post... #Derbyshire #fungi #macrophotography

Thin, tough, weathered brown-grey skin peeling away in lifting fragments to reveal a pure white subsurface - curving down into darkness.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 22/07/2026

For #waspWednesday, from Monday's walk along the #Thames - a lovely stripy ichneumon wasp on a cow parsley flower, identified (!) as a female Ichneumon sarcitorius, a parasitoid of moth caterpillars: www.naturespot.org/species/ichneumo… #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Slender wasp, glossy black with orange stripes on abdomen and legs, and a couple of neatly defined white patches - wings folded; long, curved, finely segmented antennae with a white band across the middle. Gently sipping nectar from a mass of tiny white flowers. (The larvae might be nightmarish parasitoids reminiscent of Alien - the adults are delicate nectar-drinking vegetarians. Who hunt down caterpillar hosts for their eggs...)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 11/07/2026

Hardly amongst the clearest or most artistic photos I've ever taken - but I finally managed to get one of those hugely elusive Gasteruption wasps on camera. I hope you can appreciate quite how ... *weird* they look. Next step: better photos. It's never-ending... #Derbyshire #insects #wasps

Incredibly long and slender wasp seen flying from underneath - long abdomen, implausibly long ovipositor, both in a perfectly straight line from the head - blurred wings outstretched from the thorax - against a rough stone wall.

Same wasp, different angle - its legs folded together, hanging below the thorax as it hovers in front of a stone wall and dark plastic drainpipe.

Same wasp, against another section of wall. It was clearly, intently hunting something - presumably nests of bees concealed in holes in the wall...

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 11/07/2026

For #insectSaturday / #insektenSamstag - from earlier today, a butterfly on a buddleia. Adventurous, or what? Red Admiral - Vanessa atalanta. #Derbyshire #insects #butterflies #macrophotography #bloomscrolling

Butterfly, folded dark wings mottled with with browns and with vibrant violet, red, white and black patches, finely pixelated from tiny scales, seen upside-down and side-on feeding from a mass of small pink-purple buddleia flowers.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 05/07/2026

#FotoVorschlag : "Museale Highlights / Museum highlights" Dippy the #diplodocus at the Natural History Museum, London, January 2008. #museums #dinosaurs

Upper tail vertebrate of a large sauropod dinosaur - black plaster cast - against elaborate, underlit pillars, arches, staircases, ceiling and skylights - the former decorated with small sculptures of animals.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 04/07/2026

For #insectSaturday / #insektenSamstag - another Malachius bipustulatus, Rosy-Arsed Malachite Beetle? From a few weeks ago. (Fairly sure it's that, and not the similar-looking Cordylepherus viridis. Anyhow, LOOK AT THOSE BUNS. Ahem.) #Derbyshire #insects #beetles #macrophotography

Glossily metallic green beetle with long wing cases tipped with hemispherical orange arse-cheeks, on a newly-unfurling nettle leaf.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 28/06/2026

Return of the hummingbird hawk-moth today - doing a quick pass through some red valerian. You'd think I'd have had my camera set up correctly, ready and waiting? Nah - instead I got plenty of out-of-focus shots, and a couple with wings covering the eyes... #Derbyshire #moths #macrophotography

Large, furry moth with orange-undersided wings blurred by rapid motion, and a black-and-white fluffy tail - sipping nectar from a mass of small, pink-red flowers with an absurdly long and narrow proboscis.

Same moth from a different angle - looking strikingly agile and aerodynamic, sipping from another flower. (Did I mention it was windy? Blowing the flowers - and the moth - all over the place. Moth was coping admirably - my photography ... wasn't.)

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 27/06/2026

For #caturday - another sister's cat, providing a useful test of dynamic range for a then-new camera. From August 2017... (More recently, said cat - now quite elderly and quite shy - with me on a camp-bed in the sitting room, decided to emerge from […] [Original post on pixelfed.hylobatidae.org]

Slim black cat, backlit by sunlit white curtains, with pale green eyes staring at the camera.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 27/06/2026

For #insectSaturday / #insektenSamstag - I'm disappointed to have missed the main event, but ... dragonflies emerged from a small garden pond! At least four of them, underneath lilypads. They kindly left behind some gorgeous exuviae... #Derbyshire #insects #dragonflies #macrophotography

Close-up on hollowed-out head of a dragonfly nymph - mottled brown and black, with a void at the back of the thorax where the adult dragonfly emerged - a few tubes dried-up white connective tissue splayed over the back.

Full view of hollowed-out dragonfly nymph on an upside-down sycamore leaf - looking almost crocodilian, with a long, ridged abdomen extending out from the back looking reminiscent of a crocodile's tail.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 24/06/2026

A sister's dog (looking unusually dignified) as a puppy - from May 2021. (A gleefully ridiculous little dog, and has somehow adopted me as her Best Friend. She'll howl like a wolf if anyone asks "where's [my name]?" - even if she's sat on my knee and I'm the one asking...) #dogs #dogsOfPixelfed

Jack Russell / spaniel cross puppy - mostly white with dark patches on face and ears - sat on some weathered concrete, looking remarkably dignified and well-behaved.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 21/06/2026

... and, unexpected bonus wasps, spotted today while waiting for those much more elusive ones. Cuckoo wasp from the Chrysididae, and a mystery wasp from the Ichneumonoidea. Probably. #Derbyshire #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Wasp with glittering, metallic green-blue head and thorax and orange-red abdomen, intently searching a pale lichen-covered stone wall.

Dark, slender wasp with long folded wings, a stout ovipositor, muscular red-brown legs, long antennae and black compound eyes fringed by yellow - on the edge of a grainy, dark stone.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 21/06/2026

Continued failure to get a photo of the Gasteruption wasps - they're gits to focus on when they're rapidly, unpredictably hovering around across a wall - but I did spot a hummingbird hawk-moth! First time I've seen one up-close... #Derbyshire #insects #moths #macrophotography

Large, sturdy, grey-bodied moth with black-undersided abdomen with white spots - captured in hovering flight, pale orange wings vigorously beating, beady eye seemingly staring towards the camera and alert-looking antennae - a long, narrow proboscis reaching down towards a mass of pink-red valerian flowers.

Same moth, seen slightly from behind, long dark proboscis reaching down towards another mass of red valerian flowers, this appendage about as long as the rest of the most.

Same moth, seen from the rear - wings blurred despite a very fast shutter speed.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 21/06/2026

For #spiderSunday, from yesterday - jumping spider (Attulus pubescens?) on an old stone wall. Same location as the one in my avatar image - which was taken five years earlier. Could this be a descendant of that spider? #Derbyshire #spiders #jumpingSpiders #macrophotography

Dark, compact jumping spider - covered in brown and paler-grey hairs in rough stripes, especially on the legs - looking with bright, black eyes past the camera. Ground is a smooth, weathered tan and brown sandstone.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 20/06/2026

[Bee grabbed by spider (bee escapes, goes on to parasitise other bees (oh no))] For #insectSaturday / #insektenSamstag - I saw an interesting bee buzzing around the top of a low wall - I willed it to land, so I could take some photos. ... It […] [Original post on pixelfed.hylobatidae.org]

Bee with pointed abdomen and glossy black and pale tan stripes, partly tangled up in loose blue-white cobweb, grabbed from behind by brown, slightly striped spider beneath small green leaves on rough stone wall.

Same bee, struggling to escape from spider.

Same bee, looking slightly shell-shocked after escaping the spider, on a grainy grey stone. It flew off again shortly afterwards.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 17/06/2026

[Spider with babies!] Pholcus spider caring for her unhatched babies - Derbyshire, a few weeks ago. #spiders #macrophotography

Pale, near translucent tan-coloured spider with long, spindly legs and black eyes - delicately holding a large mass of eggs in her mouth, each one with coiled-up, white legs pressed to the outside of the spherical egg for each nascent spider.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 13/06/2026

#FotoVorschlag : Objekte, die mit "K" beginnen oder so aussehen // Objects beginning with "K" or resembling it... Kleptoparasite! ... Yes, a wasp. Aren't you all thrilled. But this one is so sparkly! Cuckoo wasp from the Chrysididae - Derbyshire, April 2026. #insects #wasps #macrophotography

Close-up of small wasp, wings folded, with dark eyes glistening in the sun - and an implausibly sparkly, metallic green and blue head, thorax and legs, and an orange-red-pink metallic abdomen.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 13/06/2026

For #insectSaturday / #insektenSamstag - a ladybird resting under a leaf. ... with a parasitoid wasp in the silken cocoon beneath its legs. (I'm not obsessed, honest!) Dinocampus coccinellae - www.naturespot.org/species/dinocamp… #insects #ladybirds #wasps #macrophotography

Ladybird hanging underneath a narrow, yellow-white shrub leaf - a glossy red, black-spotted dome of wing cases with a black and white head - with a brown, fluffy-edged cocoon between the ladybird's body and the leaf. Derbyshire, May 2026.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 10/06/2026

Finally remembering to post these on a #weevilWednesday - some #weevils, from early May. One larger, one smaller - the latter clearly being the lesser of two weevils. ... Ahem. #Derbyshire #insects #macrophotography

Weevil gingerly stretching out a leg to cross a wide gap between spiky, serrated-edged leaves - its body a glossy black with long, linear ridges along its wing cases, and vivid cyan scales covering edges and crevices where they appear not to have worn off.

Much smaller weevil on a lobed hawthorn leaf - rough black carapace with stumpy legs and linear grooves along its wing cases.

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Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed @coprolite9000.pixelfed.hylobatidae.org · 08/06/2026

Using the fantastical new technology of video - #badgers at the bottom of a garden! Presumably rooting up earthworms from around a pile of grass cuttings. #Derbyshire #trailCamera #wildlife

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