Drone fly in the garden today (doing a bit of cleaning)...
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Boss photos you've taken
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On and on, over the hill and the craic is good
A rarity for me - I believe this is my first record of this hoverfly. Eristalis inticaria female.
According to Nature Spot, this large hoverfly is unlike the other UK Eristalis species in being a furry bumble bee mimic. (The males are dark with a reddish-brown tail) whilst the female (seen here) has a white tail and is somewhat larger.
Nature Spot also says this species always has a yellow scutellum.
Paul.
According to Nature Spot, this large hoverfly is unlike the other UK Eristalis species in being a furry bumble bee mimic. (The males are dark with a reddish-brown tail) whilst the female (seen here) has a white tail and is somewhat larger.
Nature Spot also says this species always has a yellow scutellum.
Paul.
This spiderling is really quite small still, she still has lots of growing to do, but I don't doubt that one day she will reach full size!
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Along came a spider...
...and sat down (beside her)...
One of my walnut orb spiders on the garden fence. She rappelled down until touching base and then settled down to try and out-stare me!
Paul.
...and sat down (beside her)...
One of my walnut orb spiders on the garden fence. She rappelled down until touching base and then settled down to try and out-stare me!
Paul.
Burj Khalifa Dubai, worlds tallest building.
In the process of spinning a web - this orb spider shows two clawed legs in contact with the silk and fresh silk coming from the spinarets.
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First few photos for a while this morning, but here is an orb spider with her capture, and then a cool bee, feeling the turn in weather, but flew away happily shortly after these were taken.
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I was going to post a photo here but my boss is a bit camera-shy.
Hairy little beggars - called woolly bears amongst other things, but I think it's a Ruby tiger moth caterpillar. Feasting on a rhubarb leaf.
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My legs are too long...
They don't fit in, lol..
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They don't fit in, lol..
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@dholliday - Nice captures m8 - she is a female (cross spider or garden spider) Araneus diadematus. You have her with a wasp - I usually get plenty of them in the garden in autumn when the apples from from our tree, but like many insects this year, there have been remarkably few.
I have seen hardly any butterflies - apart from the odd 3 or 4 that Bilbo Baggins Cat has caught and eaten (he doesn't catch birds!)
Yesterday I managed these 3 pics - I think this is a large white (Pieris brassicae) butterfly, only the 2nd one I have seen in my garden in 2017!
Paul.
I have seen hardly any butterflies - apart from the odd 3 or 4 that Bilbo Baggins Cat has caught and eaten (he doesn't catch birds!)
Yesterday I managed these 3 pics - I think this is a large white (Pieris brassicae) butterfly, only the 2nd one I have seen in my garden in 2017!
Paul.