Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label butterfly. Show all posts

Monday, August 21, 2023

Sawflies, Ichneumons and Others from the Garden

Another batch from the garden last Friday when the wet conditions gave way to a really hot humid day that the insects found to their liking. Lots of different Sawflies and Ichneumons - most not able to identify from photo but will go in the garden database as photos with suggested family etc. The one with the very long ovipositor was very impressive - about 1 cm total size. The rain had brought out slugs and snails

Monday, August 14, 2023

Latest Batch of Garden Insects

I am still on a quest to record all the insects in my garden - sometimes interesting (!) photos of familiar species like these mating Sphaerophoria scripta and some new species like the bug Dicyphus epilobii.

Monday, August 7, 2023

Recent Garden Records

Latest batch from the garden - still producing some new records like the first image which identifies as Haltichella rufipes which hasn't many observations in the UK though common in continental Europe, the furrow bee species Lasioglossum sexnotatum Ashy Furrow Bee. and Southern Hawker dragonfly.

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

RSPB Sandy Bugs, Fungi and Hobby

Yesterday was the RPS Nature Group outing to RSPB HQ at Sandy. It was postponed from previous week and the weather was slightly improved as largely dry but still windy and cool. However, we did manage to find a good selection of plant bugs, crickets, butterflies and  dragonflies.  Mike and I took an early morning walk round and spotted a Hobby and quite a few unseasonably early fungi.

Sunday, July 23, 2023

Small Blues and Friends at a Wet Trumpington Meadows

Despite a strong breeze and increasingly frequent rain showers, we manage to sight and photograph a new British butterfly for me - the small Blue. Lots of other species to photograph, many sheltering or enduring the wet conditions. The small caterpillar is a Red Admiral I think.

Ann Miles Photography - My Favourite Images of the Past10 years or so