A small photo report of the critters shot with the new Tokina AT-X Pro 100\2.8 macro lens.

At first I entertained myself with spiders and cockroaches, only sometimes I found something more exotic, but closer to winter mantises came.... Oooh they are just incredibly photogenic 🙂 When you crawl around him with a camera he turns his head in your direction and pulls his paws, like take me in your arms, meow 🙂 I haven't been able to catch a big cricket on a big camera yet, and the phone at night is rubbish.

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001 - An unknown creature
002 - Flower of an unknown tree, later bore fruit in the form of pea pods o_O
003 - Magnolia
004 - A spider with a cocoon
005 - A giant cockroach. A big one—5 cm
006 - Nocturnal creatures 🙂
007 - Cicadas are unbearable. At least they scream for only 2-3 months
008 - A cute little mantis
009 - Struggled a lot choosing the most awesome mantis photos from all the awesome ones 🙂
010 - Ants are massively devouring an ant mass destruction weapon
011 - What remains of a cicada when it sheds its old self
012 - Cicadas have three cool little holes between their eyes. Mantises have them too, by the way—maybe they're even relatives 🙂
013 - A strange fly with yellow fur, pictured on an electric fly swatter
014 - A little jumping spider
015 - Oooo wasps. Unexpectedly built a nest right in front of the veranda
016 - Some mysterious plant bloomed on the eve of winter
017 - A stink bug
018 - An unknown flower
019 - A baby cricket
020 - An adult mantis
021 - A hairy spider pooped in the corner
022 - A big night moth sitting on the other side of the window
023 - A music-loving mantis, chilling on a speaker
024 - Pet me 🙂 I'll bite your head off
025 - A lacewing, there are tons of them in Russia too
026 - A lacewing from another angle
027 - This right here is the most annoying insect! Walks by but won't let itself be petted