Given the long snout, articulated neck, and forward-mounted antenna, this seems likely to be a member of the Brentidae family. Whatever. Check out the beadwork outfit -- I can't decide if he filched it from a pearly queen or bought it in Zimbabwe.
This particularly lovely fly was perched on a fiddlehead and was licking it. I'm guessing there was some sort of sugar involved. A naturally occurring auto-composition. I somehow managed to shoot it off-centre.
Bronze? Copper? Some sort of mithril? This shield bug is a member of the family Pentatomidae and one of the thousands of beautiful shield bug species that can be found just about anywhere there are plants. Many (perhaps most) have not been described.
