Shiny
This was the prettiest of just a few invertebrates I found and photographed on a quick rattle around the garden this morning, before going out for lunch with R. I do love a Hawthorn Shieldbug, and this one was displaying … Continued
Experiment
This is the result of my second experiment in achieving extra diffusion for my Godox MF-12 twin flash heads: this time I scrunched some bubble wrap into the diffusers, in the hope that it would bounce the light around a … Continued
Absolute unit
I was practising some Haydn in advance of a choir rehearsal – an assertion that might surprise anyone who had the bad luck to be sitting in my vicinity later in the evening – when R arrived at my desk, … Continued
Mood indigo
Pottering around the garden this afternoon, I came across a group of at least eight Green Shieldbugs resting on adjacent leaves in one of the Norway maples. This was interesting in itself because I’d never seen this behaviour before, but … Continued
Leguminous
Well, this was a nice surprise. Not for you, perhaps – “OMG! Not more insects, surely?” (Ed.) – and not for the shieldbug, which was so determined to get away from the camera that after racing around the Viburnum for … Continued
Final instar
Not long to go now: this fifth instar Green Shieldbug nymph only has to moult once more to achieve adulthood. That said, it will be a pretty significant transformation from this stage to the adult, which will be shield-shaped and … Continued
