wildlife pond – Jill Orme Photography

19 Jul 2025

Dangerous

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

How gorgeous is this? In fact, I even told her so at the time: “Oh, wow! You’re gorgeous!” But I don’t think she was listening, being far too intent on cantering up the sedge leaf to get away from me. … Continued

16 May 2025

Mature

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

I was rattling around the garden this afternoon, trying to capture a few inverts on camera before R’s sister and brother-in-law arrived for a long-overdue visit, when I inadvertently scared this male Large Red Damselfly into flight. Luckily he just … Continued

4 Nov 2024

Tracker

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

I had an appointment this morning at the eye clinic at Stratford Hospital, where I have to be checked periodically because in a small proportion of people one of the drugs I take for RA can cause retinal damage. Because … Continued

3 Nov 2024

Leafy

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

On another dreary, Tupperware day, I struggled to find anything much in the garden. In the end I resorted to beating, but that got me very little more than the few invertebrates I’d already spotted myself. Of these the Green … Continued

19 Oct 2024

Typical

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

I photographed several of the usual suspects today – Black-headed Gulls in Stratford this morning, and Honey Bees and Shieldbugs (various) in the garden this afternoon – but as you know, two of the things I find hardest to resist … Continued

29 Sep 2024

Spray’n’pray

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

This morning R and I set to and reclaimed the secret garden, which over the spring and summer had become so overgrown that the inaccessible garden would have been a better nickname for it. I wasn’t sure how far we’d … Continued

26 Sep 2024

Belly up

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

You rarely see the ventral side of a shieldbug, presumably because it’s more vulnerable than the dorsal side – though in his excellent book Shieldbugs Richard Jones says this: “At rest the more delicate hind wings are furled away and … Continued

21 Aug 2024

Good times

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

The whole family descended on us today – L arrived first, with the Boy Wonder, then an hour and a half later H turned up from the Frozen North, followed almost immediately by G and the Baby Brother. Just before … Continued

5 Aug 2024

The flip

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

All three of these photos were taken within about ninety seconds. During the lunchtime hiatus between hospital appointments (Stratford this morning, then Warwick this afternoon) I wandered down to the wildlife pond to check for dragon exuviae, and as soon … Continued

1 Aug 2024

Autumnal

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

The weather and my mood were both a bit autumnal today, and in keeping with that I found a number of Shieldbug nymphs and Opiliones around the garden, but very little else. This Green Shieldbug nymph was nestling in a … Continued

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