honeysuckle – Page 2 – Jill Orme Photography

28 Mar 2025

Glittery

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

I spent quite a lot of today working in the wild garden (eeeurgh), finishing the pruning of the dogwood, and improving the scrub clearance underneath our huge red chestnut tree. I also cut down several stray elder saplings, which I … Continued

20 Mar 2025

Lush

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

This was supposed to have been a no-gardening day – partly because I’m already bored to tears with it, the novelty of (relative) tidiness having worn off before it’s even been fully achieved, but mainly because I’ve been pushing myself … Continued

19 Mar 2025

Ouch

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

I thought it might comfort those of you repulsed by spiders to know that from time to time they eat each other. I can’t tell you what the unfortunate victim was – of the almost 700 species of spider in … Continued

15 Mar 2025

Hairy

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

This morning I cut back some more shrubs – increasingly grateful for the powered secateurs that make the job so easy – and then did some general garden tidying, and planted up the new heucheras on the patio. By the … Continued

10 Mar 2025

Thorny

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

Seriously – what is going on with the weather? After the unseasonably warm weekend, I went to bed last night thinking that I’d need to water my new front garden plantings this morning, to make sure they didn’t dry out. … Continued

9 Mar 2025

Primed

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

After finishing my planting in the front garden yesterday, I started to mulch the long border with a commercial rotted bark mulch, but quickly ran out. So this morning R and I went back to the garden centre and bought … Continued

2 Mar 2025

Fierce

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

“And though she be but little she is fierce.” William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1605) According to my Wild Guide to Britain’s Spiders, March is the beginning of the Zebra Spider season, so I was a bit surprised to … Continued

1 Nov 2024

Globular springtail

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

This is only the second time I’ve ever photographed one of these tiny globular springtails, and comparing the older photos with these to see if I thought it was the same species or not, the old ones look so bad … Continued

25 Sep 2024

Final instar

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

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

19 Sep 2024

Spicy

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

By this time of year I always feel that we’ve hit peak beetle and bug season, and today was notably buggy: apart from one Viburnum Beetle, the only things I found in the garden were bugs. This one was by … Continued

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