toadflax – Jill Orme Photography

12 Oct 2021

Busy

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

Today ended up being a little more stressful than I’d expected it to be. At lunchtime I was out with the camera, searching for invertebrates to photograph, when I found an injured bird flapping around on the ground in the … Continued

31 Aug 2021

Vivid

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

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a Common Carder as strongly coloured as this one before – it was the brightest thing in the garden on a rather dark and moody afternoon, and contrasted especially well with the toadflax it … Continued

9 Jul 2021

Armoured

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

To Trench Wood this afternoon, in search of something interesting, but apart from the first Common Darter of the season (which took strong exception to being stalked), I only found the usual suspects. While hunting fruitlessly for Emerald Damselflies I … Continued

19 Jun 2021

Weedy

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

Purple toadflax is native to Italy, but has naturalised across much of Europe, including the British Isles. Because of the kind of gardener I am (lazy and incompetent) it has colonised several areas of my garden – a fact that … Continued

5 Jun 2020

Cuckoo

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

Another day, another bee on toadflax – but this time a female cuckoo bee, and she was sound asleep. Personally I would have chosen a more stable resting place, because there was a fierce breeze blowing and the long thin … Continued

4 Jun 2020

Early

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

The weather has turned somewhat grim since Tuesday: it’s cold and dark, and conducive neither to bug activity nor the photography thereof – but yet we haven’t had the rain we quite desperately need. I will feel rather embarrassed if … Continued

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