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🇩🇰 Lens By Nexoe – Macro & Wildlife
🐞 Details • Moments • Hidden beauty
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💚 Nature is waiting
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09/08/2026

The jewel by the water 🔵 Banded Demoiselle up close

A warm afternoon down by the water's edge. Clouds of mosquitoes, a few dragonflies competing for my attention — and this one, a male Banded Demoiselle, flitting from perch to perch and giving me the chance to catch him from a few different angles 🦋

Calopteryx splendens is one of those species that stops you every time. That metallic blue-green body catches the light like polished metal, and the dark banded patches on the wings are unique to the males 🪽

Those wings aren't just for show. Males perform a fluttering courtship display for females — a slow, showy flight that flashes the wing bands like a signal. Half insect, half piece of jewellery in motion 💎

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🔵 Subject: Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens)
📸 Camera: Canon EOS R7
⚪️ Lens: RF 100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
☀️ Light: Natural light
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 400
🌫 Aperture: f/8
⏱ Speed: 1/2000
📍 Location: Slavonski Brod, Croatia

08/08/2026

A ladybird that eats fungus 🐞 22-Spot Ladybird up close

Ladybirds have a reputation as aphid-hunters — the gardener's friend that clears greenfly off the roses. But this one lives completely differently 🍃

This is a 22-Spot Ladybird (Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata), one of the very few that eats neither aphids nor other insects. It grazes on mildew — the powdery fungus that grows on leaves — scraping it off surface by surface. A tiny yellow beetle quietly doing a completely different job from the rest of its family 🔍

Watch what the background does to it across the two shots. Against the cool green fence wire the yellow reads fresh and almost lemon; against the warm brown it turns golden and soft. Same beetle, same spots — the colour you see depends entirely on what's behind it 🎨

I found it out by the woodpile in the evening light, walking a wire on the fence 🚶

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🐞 Subject: 22-Spot Ladybird (Psyllobora vigintiduopunctata)
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
⚡️ Flash: Godox V860iii
⬜️ Diffuser: Cygnustech
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/10
⏱ Speed: 1/100
📍 Location: Brodski Stupnik, Croatia

04/08/2026

Nobody knows this face 🐛 leaf beetle larva up close

We were at a village kirvaj with family — the kind of afternoon where you're meant to sit still and eat. But at some point I wandered off to the woodpile to see if anything was living in it, found this, and went straight back to the car for the camera 🪵

Here's the thing: plenty of people would recognise the adult. Chrysomela vigintipunctata, the twenty-spotted willow leaf beetle, is a neat spotted thing you might find on a willow leaf. But this? This is the same species as a larva, and almost nobody knows this stage exists 🔍

Head-on it almost looks like it's watching you — that pale face ringed in dark, the glossy black legs, the spotted body. Up close, the "pest that eats willow leaves" turns into something genuinely strange and beautiful 🖤

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🐛 Subject: Spotted Willow Leaf Beetle larva (Chrysomela vigintipunctata)
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
⚡️ Flash: Godox V860iii
⬜️ Diffuser: Cygnustech
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/10
⏱ Speed: 1/100
📍 Location: Brodski Stupnik, Croatia

03/08/2026

Almost missed it 🔍 tiny beetle up close

I was just sitting on a chair on the terrace when I noticed a small black dot on the wall. I would have walked straight past it — but every now and then it shifted, just slightly. So I leaned in 🐜

Swipe to the second shot and you'll see what I mean. Next to a thumbnail, it's barely more than a speck. The kind of thing your eye registers as a mark on the plaster, not a living animal 🔍

But up close, that speck turns into a beetle in the genus Ebaeus — metallic green-black elytra, fine hairs across the back, and those long antennae reaching out to read the world 🖤

All of it on something small enough to lose against a wall 🌿

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🔍 Subject: Soft-winged Flower Beetle (Genus Ebaeus)
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
⚡️ Flash: Godox V860iii
⬜️ Diffuser: Cygnustech
🧩 Stack: 2 images ()
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/13
⏱ Speed: 1/250
📍 Location: Klakar, Croatia

02/08/2026

Not the houseguest you'd expect 🏠 House Centipede up close

I'll be honest — this one sits right on the edge of fascinating and unsettling. All those legs, that speed, the way it moves. It's a bit like spiders: it looks nothing like us, so we file it under creepy 🦟

But here's the part worth knowing. The House Centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) is one of the most useful things you can have indoors. It hunts down and eats the stuff you actually don't want — silverfish, cockroaches, spiders, fly larvae, bedbugs. That unsettling creature in the corner is quietly running pest control for the whole house 🔍

I'd been wanting a proper shot of one for ages. I found one last year outside by the steps, but I only had my phone and it was gone in a heartbeat — they're astonishingly fast. This time I finally got the chance to look closely 🏃

And up close, those legs and that big compound eye are genuinely beautiful, in a way you never get to appreciate when one darts across the floor 🖤

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🔍 Subject: House Centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata)
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
⚡️ Flash: Godox V860iii
⬜️ Diffuser: Cygnustech
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/10
⏱ Speed: 1/100
📍 Location: Slavonski Brod, Croatia

31/07/2026

Umbrella Paper Wasps 🐝 the hammock thieves

I kept noticing the paper wasps around the hammock, and I couldn't work out what kept drawing them to it. It wasn't until I looked properly that I saw them biting at the fabric — and behind the posts there was a whole worn stripe where they'd been chewing it away 🧵

That's the thing about paper wasps. The name is literal. Polistes chew plant fibres into a papery pulp and build their nests out of it, cell by cell. The hammock had simply been added to their list of raw materials 🪺

So I did what anyone would do — got the camera instead of chasing them off. The white threads curling into the first shot are the very fibres they'd come to collect 🔍

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🐝 Subject: Umbrella Paper Wasp (Genus Polistes)
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
⚡️ Flash: Godox V860iii
⬜️ Diffuser: Cygnustech
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/10
⏱ Speed: 1/100
📍 Location: Klakar, Croatia

24/07/2026

Warning colours, wrong audience 🛡️ Cruciferous Bug macro up close

Down by the river, along the steep-walled channel that runs into it. I spotted this one from a distance purely because of the colour — yellow and black against green leaves is not exactly subtle 💛

And that's the joke, really. Those colours are aposematic, a warning to anything thinking about eating it. Eurydema feed on crucifers and take up the mustard oil compounds from the plants, turning themselves foul-tasting in the process. The pattern is honest advertising: I will ruin your day ⚠️

Works perfectly on birds. Works considerably less well on a photographer walking past with a macro lens 😁

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🛡️ Subject: Cruciferous Bug (Eurydema ventralis)
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
⚡️ Flash: Godox V860iii
⬜️ Diffuser: Cygnustech
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/13
⏱ Speed: 1/100
📍 Location: Slavonski Brod, Croatia

22/07/2026

Four-in-one 🔍 count them again

I set this up for two. A red ladybird near the top of the reed, a flea beetle further down, both working their way along the same stem. That was the shot I thought I was taking 🪲

Then a damselfly flew straight through the background at the exact moment I pressed the shutter. Three.

When I got home and pulled the files up on screen I saw the fourth one — something small and pale sitting right on the ladybird's rear end 🔎

Here's my problem: I have no idea what it is. iNaturalist has suggested everything from Hesperomyces harmoniae, a parasitic fungus that grows on ladybird wing cases, to Hexapoda, which more or less translates to "something with six legs". My own guess is a larva, or maybe some kind of tiny beetle 🤔

What do you think it is? 💬

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🪲 Subject: Ladybird (Coccinellidae), Willow Flea-Beetle (Crepidodera aurata), damselfly — and one unidentified passenger
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
⚡️ Flash: Godox V860iii
⬜️ Diffuser: Cygnustech
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/13
⏱ Speed: 1/100
📍 Location: Slavonski Brod, Croatia

20/07/2026

Back to the same perch 🩸 Ruddy Darter macro up close

Midday by the river, and dragonflies at that hour keep their distance. No hiding, no waiting them out — you just close the gap slowly and take whatever you're allowed to get 🌾

What made this one possible at all is that darters are perchers. They fly out to hunt, then return to the exact same lookout again and again. So you don't chase them — you find the perch they keep coming back to, get into position, and wait for the return 🍃

A Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum). The all-black legs and that narrow, club-shaped abdomen are what separate it from the broader, flatter red species it's so often mistaken for 🔍

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🩸 Subject: Ruddy Darter (Sympetrum sanguineum)
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
☀️ Light: Natural light
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/7.1
⏱ Speed: 1/500
📍 Location: Slavonski Brod, Croatia

19/07/2026

Eye to eye 🩵

Down by the river just after six in the morning. She was sitting completely still on a reed, and I had no clips with me to hold the stem steady — so I picked the reed and rested it on my left knee 🌾

She stayed. Forty-five frames, and she never moved. Then, once I was done, she tilted her head to one side and started wiping the dew off her own eyes. The warmth of my knee and the soft light through the clouds had slowly woken her up. I set the reed back down and she simply climbed onto another one and carried on with her morning 🍃

Sitting there with her resting on my knee, close enough to watch her clean her own eyes — that's one of those moments that stays with you. Just me, her, and the river waking up around us ❤️

A narrow-winged damselfly (family Coenagrionidae). Those eyes are made up of thousands of individual facets, and each dew drop sitting on them is acting as its own tiny lens 🩵

🌿✨ Slow down, look closer – nature is waiting 💚🍂

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🩵 Subject: Narrow-winged Damselfly (Family Coenagrionidae)
📸 Camera: OM System OM-1
⚪️ Lens: M.Zuiko 90mm f/3.5 Macro IS PRO
🔍 Teleconverter: M.Zuiko Digital 2x MC-20
⚡️ Flash: Godox V860iii
⬜️ Diffuser: Cygnustech
🧩 Stack: 45 images
✋🏻 Shot: Handheld
🔢 ISO: 200
🌫 Aperture: f/10
⏱ Speed: 1/100
📍 Location: Slavonski Brod, Croatia

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