flower – Page 4 – Jill Orme Photography

15 Jun 2024

Blue Chaser

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

Wait – what? Blue, you say? But… he’s red…? Well, yes, at the moment he’s red – or reddish, at any rate. But as he matures his thorax will darken through brown to black, his abdomen will acquire a coating … Continued

14 Jun 2024

New toy

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

I can’t honestly say that I wasn’t nervous about this. Usually R and I make big purchasing decisions like this together, and slowly, with lots of research and discussion. This time though, R wasn’t well enough to get involved, so … Continued

13 Jun 2024

Malachite

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

I rarely see Malachite Beetles here – the last time I had one in the garden was two years ago. Today’s specimen was fat enough for me to assume it was a gravid female, until I got a close-up view … Continued

8 Jun 2024

Passive

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

I don’t think he was exactly asleep, because the antennae usually droop in those circumstances, but this Orange-vented Mason Bee was definitely having a few minutes of down time in my front garden this morning. He remained apparently oblivious while … Continued

4 Jun 2024

Cheerful

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

You’d think from the light here that it was a nice day, but it wasn’t. We had a lot of gloom, and a couple of fierce rain storms, but there was a brief period this afternoon when the sky lifted … Continued

3 Jun 2024

Beauty and the beast

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

Today brought me two firsts. The main image shows the first Great Pied Hoverfly (Volucella pellucens) I’ve seen this year – a fresh and pristine male, so gorgeous that I let out an audible “Oooh!” of appreciation when I first … Continued

1 Jun 2024

Mahoosive

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

This was by some way the biggest bumblebee I’ve ever seen – easily as long as the end phalanx of my thumb, and heavily built. For scale, check out the honeysuckle leaf she was sitting on. If she’d been in … Continued

30 May 2024

Dark lady

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

Another crazily busy day saw me having to scoot into the garden to do my invert hunt in what turned out to be the worst light of the afternoon. But flat light can work for you, of course, and I … Continued

29 May 2024

Poseuse

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

I can’t help having a suspicion that this is the same female White-legged Damselfly as I photographed a couple of days ago, posing on a buttercup. This isn’t as mad as it sounds, because there are only a handful of … Continued

27 May 2024

Celebratory

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

I’ve had the insurance claim form for a cancelled trip on my desk for nearly a month now, and every day I’ve managed to find reasons for avoiding tackling it. Today it finally hit the top of my to-do list, … Continued

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