Turnip Reflex
turnipreflex.bsky.social
Turnip Reflex
@turnipreflex.bsky.social
Photography, primarily nature & macrophotography. Plant native! All photos are mine. @zhimbo_photos on IG.
The Jagged Ambush Bug: Ambush predator (pic 1) and also a nectar drinker (pic 2)
#insects #macrophotography
December 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Brave little crab spider crawling on a jagged ambush bug (sitting in pearly everlasting flowers). #insects #spiders
December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
My mountain mint has some of the most numerous and diverse visitors in my yard's plantings.

#insects #plantnative
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Lacewing larva hunting among pearly everlasting flowers (Anaphalis margaritacea) #insects #macrophotography
November 18, 2025 at 1:12 AM
The appropriately named Long-necked seed bug (Myodocha serripes). #insects #macrophotography
November 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Monarch butterfly on swamp milkweed flowers #insects #butterflies
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Early instar planthopper nymph - some sort of flatid planthopper. I couldn't really tell for sure when I photographed this what I was photographing, I just had my suspicions. #insects #macrophotography
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Female parasitoid wedge-shaped beetle (Macrosiagon limbata) laying eggs in mountain mint #insects #macrophotography
October 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
On the move! Bumblebee working our bee balm patch.

#insects #bees
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Red squirrel in the clover

#squirrels
October 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Milkweed Leaf Beetle (Labidomera clivicollis), beautiful new regular resident on our property.
#insects #macrophotography
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Four-eyes

Red milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetrophthalmus)

#insects #macrophotography
September 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Small ant on a butterfly weed flower.

#insects #macrophotography
September 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Widow skimmer (Libellula luctuosa)

#insects #dragonflies
September 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Honeybee checking out the milkweed flowers #insects #bees
September 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Honeybee with milkweed pollen slippers #insects #macrophotography
September 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Saw a weird looking moth on the side of my house and took a closer look.

Zebra Jumping Spider feasting on a Labrador Carpet Moth.

#jumpingspiders #spiders
September 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I saw a lot more of these Milkweed Leaf Beetles (Labidomera clivicollis) in my yard this season. Here's a couple of them helping to ensure I see even more in the future. #insects #macrophotography
September 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
That's a lot of legs. #macrophotography
September 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Graceful garden tendrils
September 3, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Center of an early season Echinacea flower. #macrophotography
August 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hoverfly on fleabane - little fly, little flower. #insects #macrophotography
August 21, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Cribellate orb weaver (Uloborus sp.) #spiders

They can do a good job of looking like a bit of debris stuck in their web, but you get up close and they're fancy little spiders.
August 18, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Peekaboo! spider.

Dimorphic jumping spider (female). #spiders
August 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Small carpenter bee (Ceratina calcarata - Spurred Ceratina) on Fleabane flower #bees #insects
August 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM