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 bead work 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. It made an easy shot.
Bronze? Copper? Something from space? 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.
