A yellow crab spider (Misumena vatia) eating a common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum). (Photo by Sandra Standbridge/Alamy Stock Photo)





Azure damselflies, (Coenagrion puella) mate near a pond at the RSPB's Broadwater Warren on June 18, 2017 in Tunbridge Wells, England. Of the 42 species of Dragonfly in the UK, which include 17 damselflies and 25 dragonflies, many are in decline, mainly due to habitat loss. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)





A peacock butterfly on a flower in Dresden, Germany on July 14, 2017. (Photo by Monika Skolimowska/AFP Photo)





A mantis rests on a lotus seedpod in Xuyi County of Huai'an City, east China's Jiangsu Province, August 16, 2017. (Photo by Zhou Haijun/Xinhua/Barcroft Images)





Freshly hatched mayflies or ephemeras (Palingenia longicauda) float on the surface of River Tisza near Nagykoru, 127 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, 18 June 2017 (issued 19 June 2017). Mayflies are water insects; the females drop their eggs into the water, the nymphs or naiads spend three years on the bottom of the river before they emerge to the surface. Every year from late spring to early summer a natural spectacle called “Tisza blooming” happens on the surface of River Tisza as the adult insects moult their larva skins. The adult insects take flight, swarming in huge clouds, make their wedding dance and after mating females lay eggs on the river's surface then both sexes perish in just a few hours. (Photo by Janos Bugany/EPA)





A beetle clambers over the flowers of a Sorbaria sorbifolia bush in a garden outside Moscow on July 25, 2017. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





A hogweed bonking beetle and yellow dung fly in a stalk standoff (the fly gave in), in Burley-in-Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England. (Photo by Rebecca Cole/Alamy Stock Photo)





Blue dasher dragonfly perched on a spent bee balm flower, Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, US. (Photo by Michael McKinne/Alamy Stock Photo)





A honeybee collects pollen in the blossom of a hibiscus in Ludwigsburg, Germany on August 10, 2017. (Photo by Thomas Kienzle/AFP Photo)





A spider (top L) waits for his prey on a web in a forest outside Moscow on July 23, 2017. (Photo by Yuri Kadobnov/AFP Photo)





Bees collect pollen on a sunny evening in the Brentry Woodlands Romsey, UK on July 6, 2017. (Photo by Geoffrey Swaine/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





A mantis rests on a lotus flower in Xuyi County of Huai'an City, east China's Jiangsu Province, August 16, 2017. (Photo by Zhou Haijun/Xinhua/Barcroft Images)





A dragonfly lands atop an unopened Lotus flower beside an opened one as Lotis flowers near full bloom at Echo Park lake amid an ongoing southern California heatwave in Los Angeles, California, on June 26, 2017. The heatwave which began on June 6th is forecast to end on Tuesday June 27, 2017. Lotus flowers at Echo Park lake were believed to have been imported in the 1920's from China, possibly by Aimee McPherson, founder of the Angelus temple near the park, and have returned following a two-year rehabiliatation project where the lake was drained and restored , with lotus beds replaced. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP Photo)





A fly, above, and the ant feed on chamomile nectar in a field on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, Friday, July 21, 2017, during a sunny summer's day. (Photo by Sergei Grits/AP Photo)





Although the Wings of Fancy exhibit at Brookside Gardens closes when it gets too hot (today and in recent days the butterfly greenhouse has been closing at about noon due to high heat and humidity for visitors and staff--the butterflies don't mind it at all), one can still tour the nearby gardens where butterflies flourish outdoors. This Great Spangled Fritillary enjoyed some time on a coneflower in the gardens on July 13, 2017. (Photo by Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)





Japanese giant hornet closeup macro, also called giant sparrow bee. (Photo by Kagenmi/Getty Images)