Andrew Moughalian's photography of insects and animals

Almost unbelievably, a chipmunk stands on two legs having just grabbed a daddy longlegs (harvestman) eating its abdomen like an apple.

Eastern Chipmunk

8.8.20 Lake Champlain, New York, USA

Most of the image is an ocean of blurred greens and blacks. A lone dragonfly perched on the edge of a leaf sits on the right side staring into the abyss. Its tail is an iridescent blue, and stripes black stripes wrap around its flank.

Blue Dasher Dragonfly

6.22.19 Central Park, New York City, USA

A toad covered in what looks like a variety of black and tan peppercorns, sits in wet pine needles, with a golden eye reminiscent of a distant galaxy.

American Toad

8.4.20 Lake Champlain, New York, USA

Metallic green beetle, with ruby hues at the edge of its body, munches happily on a fresh young petal of German Chamomile. Its carapace is beautifully patterned with dents reminiscent of hammered metal.

Japanese Beetle

5.8.22 Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo, Japan

Hidden amongst early spring grasses and leftover fall leaves, a small snake with an olive top and pale yellow underside sits frozen against the foliage.

Garter Snake

5.3.20 Massachusetts, USA

Lily Pads float on tranquil navy water, and a huge yellowjacket sits in the middle of one of the pads drinking from a puddle in the middle. Its body is covered in exquisite black and gold armor.

Yellowjacket

5.31.19 Kyoto Botanical Garden, Kyoto Japan

Resting amongst the ripples of a river, a muskrat with wet fur looks over its shoulder. Blurred branches give green bokeh over the muskrat which makes it look rather elegant.

Muskrat

5.15.21 Massachusetts, USA

With a purple valley of petals on either side, a bright green grasshopper sits surveying the camera over its shoulder. It has long antenna which continue out of frame.

Green Grasshopper

5.8.22 Showa Kinen Park, Tokyo, Japan

A butterfly with cream body and wings, and blace lacing throughout, sits elegantly on pink-purple flowers. The wing's edge is deckled, and comes to a point reminiscent of a swallow's tail. They also have dabs of blue and orange on their wings.

Swallowtail Butterfly

5.31.19 Kyoto Botanical Garden, Kyoto, Japan

Early spring, an early cottontail rabbit sits in a small clearing of buttercups (ranunculus) eating the stem of a dandelion. Many buttercups run from the foreground to background popping out against the dark emerald grasses.

Cottontail Rabbit

5.23.20 Massachusetts, USA

A bengal cat sits in dim lighting highlighted by filtered afternoon light coming through blinds giving it an extra set of luminescent stripes.

Bengal Cat

7.21.20 New York CIty, USA

Eastern Amberwing Dragonfly

7.5.19 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York City, USA

Tufts of pink trumpet flowers sit on long green stalks criss crossing the foreground and background. A monarch butterfly with a combination of pale and bright orange wings crossed in black sits perched atop of flowers, feasting.

Monarch Butterfly

8.10.19 Central Park, New York City, USA

An extreme close up of a lizard (カナヘビ) with beautiful amber, rust, eand eggshell colored banding. Its scales show it descended from dinosaurs, and its underbelly is the color of fresh dandelions.

Japanese Grass Lizard

5.31.19 Kyoto Botanical Garden, Kyoto, Japan

An Asian Gypsy Moth walking across a rope shot in macro. It has a bright yellow head with circular groupings of red blotches with two long black stripes mirrored on either side. It has formidable looking jaws, long coarse hairs coating its body.

Asian Gypsy Moth Caterpillar

5.27.19 Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan

Crawling on a bed of moss, a richly colored orange newt (red eft stage) pauses for a photo.

Eastern Newt (Red Eft)

8.5.20 Lake Champlain, New York, USA

Bumblebee

7.5.19 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York City, USA

Embedded within infinite grasses, an eastern chipmunk with swollen cheeks looks for more to add to its stash.

Eastern Chipmunk

5.23.21 Mount Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts, USA

Close up shot of a trim eastern chipmunk sitting on a small stump, its long tail dangling. Its face is a pale golden, which transitions to salt and pepper and then its rump is auburn, before returning to a black and white tail.

Eastern Chipmunk

8.8.20 Lake Champlain, New York, USA

A silver spotted skipper sits upside down sucking on a purple flower. Closeup macro photography shows the body is covered in thick brown hair, but its wings are reddish brown, with the classic white and orange bands on its wings.

Silver Spotted Skipper

8.10.19 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York City, USA

Sheltering against the snow a squirrel sits in the crevice of a tree, eating some plant matter. Its fur is unmarred so it looks like it's wearing a flawless gray fur coat.

Eastern Grey Squirrel

1.18.20 St. Nicholas Park, New York City, USA

A bit of rock juts into the image on the left side and a sleek and picturesque brown rat dips its front half into black water of a stream.

Norway Rat (Brown Rat)

9.7.19 Central Park, New York City, USA

A six point adult male Ezo Shika Deer (エゾシカ) strips the bark off a tree, not bothered as it blends into its surroundings.

Yezo Shika Deer

3.19.22 Lake Utonai, Hokkaido, Japan

Macro photography of a bumblebee wading through the surface of a sunflower, backlit by the sun.

Bumblebee

7.5.19 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York City, USA

A creature resembling a butterfly and a lobster sticks (オオスカシバ) its long tongue into tiny yellow and pink flowers. It has two thick antennae at the top of its head, lime-green fur covering the two-thirds of its body, which ends it black fur.

Coffee Bee Hawkmoth

5.26.19 Kyoto, Japan

Metallic green bee presses its face into a the split ends of a blade of grass, the stalk engulfs its head,

Sweat Bee

5.23.20 Massachusetts, USA

On a pink and white flower dusted in pollen, a majestic fly with very long legs stands with an aphid in its mouth. In this close up macro-shot, every detail is available. It has a metallic green body and iridescent wings.

Long-Legged Fly

7.5.19 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York City, USA

A tiny black beetle, long and thin, sits at the edge of a blade of grass. The background is out of focus swathes of yellow and green swirl and mix. Standing sentry a buttercup flower looms in the background far off.

Click Beetle

5.22.20 Massachusetts, USA

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