Invertebrates – Page 73 – Jill Orme Photography

27 Sep 2022

Chilled

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

R and I were busy today, preparing for an overnight stay by the Family B. The weather was also very changeable – windy, with scudding clouds and rain showers, interspersed with short spells of sunshine. All of this made bug … Continued

24 Sep 2022

Puzzling

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

This is only the second Eristalis intricaria I’ve photographed this year, and the first I’ve seen in the village for five years. It’s a widely distributed species, but according to the Hoverfly Recording Scheme it’s especially abundant in northern and … Continued

23 Sep 2022

Friday Hawker

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Warwickshire | 0

It would be fair to say that during the extra time I’ve been spending with the Boy Wonder this month, my everyday tasks have not been taking care of themselves. Looking around at the chaos this morning, I made a … 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

19 Sep 2022

Placeholder

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

This Paroligolophus agrestis – beaten from a viburnum during a late afternoon scuttle around the garden, holds today’s place in my journal for the simple reason that I don’t post pictures of pictures. Apart from this brief burst of activity, … Continued

17 Sep 2022

B-Day

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

R and I met the Family B at Croome this morning, to effect a transfer of the Boy Wonder, who’s staying with his Ageds overnight again. Having a much shorter and more predictable journey than the Welsh contingent we arrived … Continued

16 Sep 2022

Grounded

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

I swept this harvestman out of our ornamental weeping pear this afternoon. It’s one of several Paroligolophus agrestis I found today, but wins the prize for having given me my most unusual image. I was using an old hazel log … Continued

15 Sep 2022

Hummer

by JDO | posted in: Hoverflies, Invertebrates, Wales | 0

R and I had an excellent day with the Boy Wonder in Cardiff today. He was cute and funny throughout, and also rather sweet at times, showing genuine concern when a slightly younger child (“Baybee!”) was crying in the Swedish … 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