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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monarchs	mourning cloak	Argynnis aglaga	small tortoiseshell	tiger swallowtail	queen butterfly	morpho at rest
red admiral	Painted ladies	California sister	Lycaenid butterfly	pigmy blue	small tortiseshell	peacock butterfly
Melanargia	sphinx moth	sphinx moth	green fly	native bee	cactus bees	honeybee hive
carpenter bees	Anthophorid bees	bumblebees	Darwin's beetle	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
great pondhawk	band-winged dragonlet	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	golden silk orb-weaver
ballooning spiders