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Excellent find! almost looks like a tiny green ground beetle but without the metallic color.

In the time it took me to get these two usable bug pictures, I got at least 20 mosquito bites. This may be it for me.............

Oooooo .....those are creepy and good, Kelly. I don't dare go out in my backyard these days either...the rain has been great for mosquitoes...like a tropical rain forest out there...and they are vicious!

You'll need to tell me how to get bugs to show up and crawl across my paper towels.

Good finds, Kelly.
Looks like an Orchid Spider of some sort and a Pyralis Firefly.

Mikell,
I shot this with help from my ringlight (same one as linked above)
It allowed me to stop down and get better depth of field.
Ring lights provide excellent illumination across the lens, but tends to flatten the subject if it is the dominant light source. The tick is to shoot in sun (the light of the ring is about the same white point as mid-daylight) and let the sun keep some shadows in.

Shooting with the broad bounce flash will act just like sunlight and keep natural shadows.

Another option is a macro speedlight setup, which can do many things, but those get very expensive and are only compatible with certain lenses.

For $30-something bucks, the ringlight was a worth buy for me.

Wow..that's nice and sharp. I need to learn more about flash use...eventually! thanks for the info.

I don't like spiders...but I will take their pictures.
This very tiny one was on the screen door...OUTSIDE!

Well isn't he a handsome chap?!

This one of mine isn't all that sharp - but what I like about her, is the heart on her back!