Ribes nigrum – Jill Orme Photography

17 Jun 2024

Glittery

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

This female Currant Clearwing looks to me as if she’s wearing a skin-tight sequinned evening dress and an extravagantly fringed shawl. Butterfly Conservation lists the species as Nationally Scarce, and dressed like that, I’m not surprised – when the light … Continued

10 Sep 2022

Camouflage

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

This dock bug and I have been playing a little game of hide and seek with each other around the fruit bed in the secret garden for most of this week. This morning I caught it pretending to be part … Continued

11 Jun 2022

Pellucid porn

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

It’s not often that I laugh when I see something eminently photographable at the one moment in the entire day when I’m not carrying a camera, but this scene genuinely made me chuckle. I turned the laugh into a cough … Continued

4 May 2022

Early

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

It was dark and rainy during the early part of the day, so I used the opportunity to get some boring but useful things done, and happily I was free and able to rush outside with the camera as soon … Continued

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