Microcosm of Baikal

In this issue you will find a large selection of macro photographs of Rostislav Mashin, taken during several trips to Lake Baikal over several years.

Black ant-Treecreeper

Filly

Ribbed ragiy

On the landing! Barbel flower

Barbel beetle and bandaged wax beetle

The abscess beetle

Krestovik (?) *who can tell you what kind of spider it is?

Bull horsefly

The wolf spider from Olkhon. Beautiful and kind) A loner, lives in burrows, does not weave a web for catching prey – at night he gets out of the hole and goes hunting.

A separate photo shoot for a pond snail

And a few lepidoptera, day and night

Hawthorn and dwarf lily

Golubyanki

The Green Moth

Poplar hawk moth, on take-off

Unpaired silkworm

And a little more…

Breakfast for two – black ant and abscess beetle

Spider on a rhododendron flower after the rain

... There is life everywhere – and on a steep cliff above Lake Baikal

...and since we are talking about plants – a blooming rhododendron, after the rain

and "the last snowdrops" - an open Lumbago, aka Dream-grass, in fact, belongs to the buttercup family, but it is often called simply "snowdrop" by the people, because of the early flowering, in April-May. It was a great luck to meet a blooming lumbago in June.

"Hello!". The Barbel Beetle

"Date". The draughtsman and the abscess beetle

Krestovik in ambush

Spider-sidewalker, aka spider-crab

Skakunchik, a spider with a height of slightly more than 2 mm. Very curious, mobile, jumps suddenly and at a distance ten times the length of the body.

Another horse, female, 3 mm at the withers

"Water". Dragonfly larvae are common inhabitants of forest reservoirs: ponds, lakes and swamps. Predators live and guard their prey on the bottom and stems of aquatic plants.

A couple of bokoplavs

Korean (in my opinion) ant lion on a branch of wormwood

Well, and finally – - a small forest sketch

Thank you for watching!)