Brent Pennington: Photographer

This head-on portrait highlights a red milkweed beetle, a ubiquitous resident on milkweed plants beginning in midsummer, and from that point onward I doubt there

Nobody enjoys greenbottle flies or really wants them around.  They are pests, at least from our perspective.  But still they find their way in front

This small insect is a peach root weevil, a member of the root weevils, as its name suggests.  A non-native nuisance species from Asia, according

One of the more unfortunate insect names, although presumably accurate: the root-maggot fly in all its glory.  As an equal-opportunity photographer, I’m not above grabbing

Providing a sense of scale in macro photographs is difficult; by definition, macro photography is the reproduction of subjects at life-size, meaning 1:1 or better. 

Oh, to be a beetle living within a daisy blossom!  It seems like such an idyllic life – but then, we know that insects hardly

The simple hoverfly may not look like much.  It is a ubiquitous visitor to my gardens throughout the summer, and an often-unappreciated pollinator.  Generally smaller

Late summer is mantis season, where any of the young who survived their vulnerable early months have reached their full-grown size.  As adults, mantises are

BRENT PENNINGTON – Grasshopper nymph on a lavendar stalk in Scranton, PA, on 14 June 2024. BRENT PENNINGTON – Grasshopper nymph in Scranton, PA, on

Carpenter bees get a bad rap.  Their nature drives them to find tree trunks, into which they chew deep burrows.  Unfortunately, they are not discriminating;