Monthly Photo Competition #30 – May, 2025 – “Nature macros/close-ups” {Poll Added}

This is the monthly thread for May, 2025. The topic this month is “Nature macros/close-ups”, chosen by MacDoc.

Please post only your photo and, if you want, a title in this thread. Any other text belongs in the rolling discussion thread. Exception: discussion can commence in this thread after the poll has closed.

The general rules for the competition are here.

One entry per person per month . To make the photos easier to review please only post just once to this thread, with your entry.

Once the submission deadline has passed, I’ll put a voting poll in this thread .

Submission deadline: Monday, May 26, 11:45 pm US EDT.

Good luck!

OK, I’ll start. With the spiders I just saw in my garden:


Bee on a Passion Fruit flower

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Clever hopper, hiding in plain sight.
(taken from 3 meters)

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Rolling No More

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Little buddy
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Party bee

Shimmering Leaves

Non-bleeding hearts.

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Dandelion seeds caught in a spider’s web. Around noon, 9 May 25.

Click for the full image!

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Click for the full image! That’s good to note for all images.

Sundew