Beetles – Page 7 – Jill Orme Photography

16 Oct 2022

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by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

This was my very first find of the day – and the most exciting, because I’d never seen one before – though I don’t think it’s my best photo. If you have the time to take a look at my … Continued

14 Oct 2022

Thorny

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Tonight I’d like to present another in my occasional series: Invertebrates Who Are Auditioning for a Role in the Next Lord of the Rings Film. He’s a beetle, but definitely one of the least beetly beetles I’ve ever met – … Continued

20 Sep 2022

Rainbow

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

Trench Wood was a strange place today – warm and at least intermittently sunny, and with a fair amount of devil’s bit scabious still flowering, but virtually devoid of nectar-feeding inverts: across two hours I reckon I saw just three … Continued

14 Sep 2022

Lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Following a discussion with uniqueandlovely last week I bought myself a sweep net, and this afternoon I wandered around the garden, sweeping across soft vegetation and beating trees and shrubs, to see what I could find. The answer was: plenty … Continued

13 Sep 2022

Cinnamon

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Bugs, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

I got a little bit overexcited when I first spotted this bug, thinking that I might have found a firebug, but by the time I’d taken its photo I’d realised that it was “the other one” – Corizus hyoscyami, the … Continued

12 Sep 2022

Carnage

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Though it’s one of our smallest ladybirds, at 3.5-4.5mm in length, the 14-spot is a voracious predator of aphids. The swarm of aphids on my yarrow plants seems to have defeated the larger 7-spots and harlequins, which have now abandoned … Continued

30 Aug 2022

Weevil Knievel

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

I spent a couple of happy hours in Trench Wood this afternoon, getting some invertebrate therapy. I arrived in bright sunshine, but by the time I was walking back along the main ride towards the car park it had clouded … Continued

23 Aug 2022

Take-off

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I didn’t really have the light for capturing this kind of activity, but when I noticed that this Harlequin seemed to prefer flying to walking in moving from one yarrow flower to another, I thought I’d give it a go. … Continued

14 Jun 2022

Roller

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Bugs, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

A trip to Trench Wood this morning gifted an unexpected encounter in the car park with my friend RC – he’s a renownedly early riser, and I’m not, so our flight periods rarely overlap. For the next couple of hours … Continued

25 May 2022

Malachite

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

The garden is currently full of buttercups, which are a wonderful resource for a number of invertebrates, so every time I walk down the garden I check all the buttercup flowers to see who might be lurking inside. Today’s discovery … Continued

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