flower – Page 8 – Jill Orme Photography

31 May 2025

Skittish

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

My car was booked into the garage this morning for its twenty-thousand mile service, so when I got home yesterday afternoon I emptied it of all the little personal bits and pieces you’d expect. Boots; more boots; emergency anorak; spare … Continued

26 May 2025

Pollen mining

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

With the unusually warm April and May we’ve experienced, it seems as though my spring solitary bees have lived fast and died young: there are plenty of bumblebees in the garden right now, but for the past week or so … Continued

21 May 2025

Mimic

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

I was walking into the clearing at Cleeve Prior Mill this afternoon, between high banks of bramble and wild flowers, when I half noticed a yellow and black bumblebee with a white tail, nectaring on cow parsley. In my defence, … Continued

17 May 2025

Spiffy

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

There’s something absolutely luscious, I think, about a very fresh male Early Bumblebee. We have a lot of these Bombus pratorum boys in the garden at the moment, so at least one nearby nest has just released its ‘crop’. Their … Continued

12 May 2025

Two blues

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

My best spot of the day today was a male Scarce Chaser, which swooped down over the Long Deep Pond at Cleeve Prior Community Orchard while I was checking it for damselflies. Sadly, he banked away and disappeared before I … Continued

5 May 2025

Buttercup Blacklet

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

Today was the first of the month’s two Bank Holidays. To me these are and always will be May Day and Whitsuntide, but officially they’re called the Early May and Spring Bank Holidays. This shows a depressing lack of imagination, … Continued

23 Apr 2025

Snout

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

And what a snout it is. Rhingia campestris is quite a small hoverfly, and thus easy to overlook, but once you’ve spotted one the only insect with which it could reasonably be confused is its close cousin, Rhingia rostrata. The … Continued

21 Apr 2025

Keen

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

It rained heavily overnight, and the first half of the day was murky and cold. When the sun appeared – unexpectedly – mid way through the afternoon, I grabbed the camera and squelched off down the garden in search of … Continued

16 Apr 2025

Windswept

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

The weather went completely insane today, blowing a gale the like of which we haven’t seen since the old privy roof took off and tried to take out a power line, back in December. In fact, en route to collecting … Continued

14 Apr 2025

Greenish

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

It was a dour and fairly cold day, and invert activity was minimal. I went out for coffee and cake in Stratford with R, which was good, and then went shopping for supplies for some batch cooking I’m about to … Continued

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