Nature photography by Mark Chappell:   insects and spiders

Click on a thumbnail to see a larger image. All images © Mark A. Chappell

Click here for a slide show of my favorite arthropod photos.

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sphinx moth	sphinx moth	mourning cloak	monarchs	tiger swallowtail	morpho at rest	queen butterfly
red admiral	Painted ladies	California sister	Lycaenid butterfly	pigmy blue	small tortiseshell	peacock butterfly
green fly	honeybee hive	native bee	cactus bees	carpenter bees	Anthophorid bees	gray sanddragon
Western pondhawk	neon skimmer	Mexican amberwing	wandering glider	varigated meadowhawk	red rock skimmer	black saddlebags
red saddlebags	red-tailed pennant	blue dasher	blue-eyed darner	flame skimmer	green darner	roseate skimmer
eight-spotted skimmer	spot-winged glider	Habronattus pyrrithrix	jumping spider 2	Phidippus	Thiodina sylvana	jumping spider
Thiodina hespera	araneus face	pink-toed tarantula	Mexican fireleg	greenbottle blue tarantula	zebra tarantula	black widows
lynx spider	Neoscona crucifera	golden garden spider	banded argiope	silver argiope	orb spider	ballooning spiders