Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed

Amazing stuff indeed - going beyond simple, surface-level decay and into the mineralogical. Human artefacts entering deep, geological time... Reminds me of artist David Maisel's 'Library of Dust' - photos of corroded copper canisters containing (unseen, unclaimed) cremated human remains. https://davidmaisel.com/works/library-of-dust/

A small, arbitrary fraction of today's bugs (the term 'bugs' being used particularly loosely):

Andrena cineraria, mining bee
Nomada sp.?, nomad bee
Wolf spider from the Lycosidae
Palomena prasina, shieldbug

#Derbyshire #insects #spiders #bees #shieldbugs #macrophotography #macroMonday

From yesterday - a fantastically named Hairy-footed Flower Bee, Anthophora plumipes. (Look at the really long hairs on the lower parts of his front legs!)

https://www.naturespot.org/species/hairy-footed-flower-bee

#Derbyshire #insects #bees #macrophotography

For #saturdaySolitude - down in the spring woodlands a few days ago, with this year's #bluebells arriving...

#bloomscrolling #sporespondence #Derbyshire

Today's bug from a garden safari - a small moth with absurdly long antennae. In flight, an ethereal, flickering presence - with those antennae waggling around in the sunshine...

Adela reaumurella?

https://www.naturespot.org/species/adela-reaumurella

#Derbyshire #insects #moths #macrophotography

... and of *course* I spotted some #wasps on today's wall safari. Almost completely unidentifiable, as usual.

Tiny thing from the Ichneumonoidea (admittedly seen on a different, nearby wall)
Small, alien-looking wasp from the Crabronidae - possibly Crossocerus sp.? https://www.naturespot.org/family/crabronidae
Mystery wasp! Possibly from the Pompilidae - the spider-hunters?

#Derbyshire #insects #macrophotography

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

(Something I'm enjoying is watching spring arrive at different times for different people I'm following - right now, everything from nesting birds through to snow just starting to melt!)