Skipper

I haven't seen a lot of variety in the insects in the back yard of late and was actually getting a little tired of shooting sweat bees and hoverflies with an occasional flesh fly thrown in.  And I don't get shots of them easily because they move a lot, and are very small 

Today when I was pressed for time, I was quite relieved to see this little Skipper land on the Hibiscus leaf with very little in the background.  It stayed quite still and I was able to get off a few shots, in focus, in a very short period of time and get on with other things.  This was taken with the 90 mm macro lens +16 mm extension tube.  Have a look in large and you can see the eye facets, which always amazes me. 

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