Batwoman
This isn’t the most exciting thing I photographed today but it has turned out to be my favourite photo, because I love the contrast between the rather saturnine hoverfly with her Batman logo, and the delicate, snowy froth of the … Continued
Surprise
posted in: Dragonflies, Flowers and plants, Hoverflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Odonata, Worcestershire |
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Whether because of the changeable weather, or because there’s not much flowering in the borders at the moment that they like, I’m currently finding very few invertebrates when I go on bug hunts around the more cultivated sections of the … Continued
Concentration
This female Melanostoma scalare refused to be interrupted in the middle of her meal by some idiot sticking a camera and a light in her face, and carried on doggedly browsing the dogwood. A woman after my own heart. Today … Continued
Shimmering
I’m getting quite good on the stepladder now, if I do say so myself. And I may as well, because it’s highly unlikely that anyone else will; certainly the two Southern Hawkers I photographed from the top of it at … Continued
The Guv’nor
This is the Red Admiral who’s in charge of our wild garden. I’m not sure where he spends the early part of each day, but somewhere between 4pm and 5pm every afternoon he turns up and begins expelling undesirables from … Continued
Caught napping
Another day of lowering skies and occasional showers discouraged me from going road tripping, and in the end I contented myself with a bug safari around the garden. Despite the dire (and dour) light, I made some quite nice discoveries, … Continued
Horrified
posted in: Butterflies, Grasshoppers, Invertebrates, My garden, Orthoptera, Trees, Worcestershire |
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I spent much of the afternoon stalking grasshoppers and crickets around the village. It isn’t fair, really, because they absolutely hate it – Orthoptera are so far down the food chain that almost everyone eats them, so the closer you … Continued
Turned out wet again
“OMG,” I said to R, half way through the day. “I’m going to have to go out in this.” This being a soft but wetting rain, coupled with the kind of thick mist you see around the edges of a … Continued