Debnandan Maji Photography

'D A N C E'
This colourful metallic spider was spotted by me few days before while I was looking for something interesting to photograph.
From my trawling on the internet, this actually appears to be a Siler semiglaucus, originally described in 1901.These spiders belong to the class of jumping spiders and are brightly coloured with reddish orange and green patches on a metallic purple body.They have a curious habit of waving their forelegs in the air

I have fond childhood memories of collecting them in the backyard , and I know that most types of ladybirds do lots of good in the organic garden… eating aphids and such… but not the one I’m talking about. This particular ladybird, the 28-spotted potato ladybird (Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata) is a troublesome leaf eater with a seemingly insatiable appetite
28-spotted potato ladybird is a species of beetle in the family Coccinellidae. It is commonly known as the Hadda beetle.
It feeds on the foliage of potatoes and other solanaceous crops.

'Hand of Friendship'
Extreme macro of a Yellow Waxtail/Coromandel Marsh Dart (male)
It is a medium sized pale green damselfly with bright yellow tail (male) or pale green tail (female). It has slender wings that are closed when they are resting. They are carnivorous throughout their life, mostly feeding on smaller insects. It is a beautiful damsel fly of India. Marsh darts are found throughout the world and in India 65 species are known and 25 species are recorded in peninsular India.

'The two-striped jumper'
(Telamonia dimidiata)
*Jumping spider*

Untitled!




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'H A P P I N E S S'

*Smile of a dragonfly*



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'Extreme Macro of a Mosquito'

“They can see you when they’re flying towards you, and they can see you when they’re flying away”
Most insects have multifaceted eyes—house flies, for example, have about 6,000 eye facets that give them a panoramic view of their surroundings. It’s the reason their eyes look like honeycombs up close.
But with 30,000 individual facets, dragonflies blow them—and every other insect—completely out of the water. Each facet, or ommatidia, creates its own image, and the dragonfly brain has eight pairs of descending visual neurons to compile those thousands of images into one picture.And it gets even crazier; dragonflies have visual senses that would be considered superpowers by any human standards. Human eyes have three opsins—proteins that sense light—giving us a color range of red, green, and blue. Dragonfly eyes can have four or five opsins, allowing them to perceive the normal color spectrum, along with UV light and the plane of light polarization (the effect you get with polarized sunglasses).
The massive bulbous eyes of a dragonfly wrap around its head like an astronaut’s helmet, giving it a 360 degree view of the world.

'Splashed'

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'The art of God'
*full screen view recomended*

'Extreme Macro Photo Of The Tip Of A Ballpoint Pen'
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