Bugwalk 53

August 13th-27th 2013; Panasonic DMC TZ31, optional flash, vivid color-filter, optional serial shots-feature, handheld, normal exposure and 1/250, macro-zoom and normal zoom, cropped, contrast increased, resized...

at my mom's, common scorpionfly (female) on leaf...this insect even scared ME at first (I had never seen such a fly before)