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First of the year
24 Apr 2025

First of the year

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

Oh my days – finally!  Of course, I knew that the Odonata season would start here sooner of later, but my socials have been filling for three weeks or so now with images of damsels (various), Chasers (various), Banded and … Continued

Cygnustech diffuser, damselfly, flash, garden, Godox V860iii, hedge, large red damselfly, laurel, Odonata, Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Wild swimming
4 Apr 2025

Wild swimming

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

There was a bit of an incident chez nous this afternoon. When we first installed our little wildlife pond we used to net it in the autumn, so that the huge number of leaves that come down from all our … Continued

Andrena fulva, bee, garden, hedge, laurel, mining bee, solitary bee, tawny mining bee
Dappled
19 Apr 2024

Dappled

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

This isn’t the first Speckled Wood I’ve seen this year, but it’s the first that’s been prepared to sit still while I photographed it. That said, it waggled its wings irritably at me as I approached, in a passive-aggressive snit … Continued

butterfly, garden, hedge, laurel, Pararge aegeria, speckled wood
Ta-da!
13 Apr 2024

Ta-da!

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

“So, which story are we reading?” I asked the Boy Wonder at bedtime. “The monster one!” was the immediate (and by this point confidently expected) reply. So I read Kipper’s Monster. And then I read it again. And then there … Continued

Dasysyrphus tricinctus, garden, grass, hedge, hoverfly, laurel, Rhingia rostrata
Who you?
19 Mar 2024

Who you?

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

I was in a vile mood this morning: stressed because the garden was looking awful, and I knew I was going to have to shape myself and do something about it; frustrated because I was struggling to get the photos … Continued

Andrena scotica, bee, beetle, Chocolate Mining Bee, flea beetle, garden, hedge, laurel, mining bee, solitary bee
Chocolate miner
20 Feb 2024

Chocolate miner

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

“That sounds like a job for me,” said R. “I think I’d enjoy chocolate mining.” Maybe so, but I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t enjoy being this Chocolate Mining Bee (Andrena scotica), which was one of two I spotted in the … Continued

Andrena scotica, bee, Chocolate Mining Bee, garden, hedge, laurel, mining bee, parasite, solitary bee, Strepsiptera, stylops
Sarge
17 Oct 2023

Sarge

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

Worldwide there are around 2,700 species of soldierfly, but less than fifty of them are found in the UK. It’s not really clear why they’re called soldierflies, because they are harmless to humans, but many of them have a metallic … Continued

fly, garden, hedge, laurel, Sargus bipunctatus, soldierfly, twin spot centurion
Late entrant
30 May 2023

Late entrant

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

This female Holly Blue was resting on the laurel hedge in the secret garden at lunch time, and obligingly opened her wings enough for me to see her diagnostic black forewing marking. Apart from a couple of nicks out of … Continued

butterfly, Celastrina argiolus, garden, hedge, holly blue, laurel
Azure
7 May 2023

Azure

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

After a busy morning with the Boy Wonder – breakfast, Stratford (“We in Shtratford now,” he said, as we turned into Chestnut Walk, because He. Is. A. Genius.), playground, puddles, duck feeding, café for babyccino and cookie, screaming toddler head-fit … Continued

Azure Damselfly, Coenagrion puella, damselfly, garden, hedge, laurel, Odonata
Variable
28 Apr 2023

Variable

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

After a run of autumnal days the wind has now moved back into the south-west, where it belongs, and today the temperature shot up by several degrees. This brought out an interesting range of invertebrates, several of which I’d never … Continued

bee, garden, hedge, laurel, nomad bee, Nomada zonata, solitary bee, variable nomad bee

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