I even got to see a second conehead mantis, quite a bit smaller and different colour to the large purple one.
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Conehead Mantis – small
Wildlife
Nasturtium Red
These are lovely plants. Bright, colourful and tasty. Yes, you can eat them! Apparently they have a peppery flavour, of which I haven’t tasted yet. I prefer to plant and leave them for the caterpillars. Small and Large whites absolutely love them. The butterflies lay their eggs on the underside of the leaves, then steadily munch their way through them when they hatch. It’s really cool to see it all happen 🙂
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Blue Monday
For a bit of blue…
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September Spider
I don’t know what type of spider this is, only that it was in the garden in early September. I can’t wait for spring to begin and some colour and life to return.
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Myscelia butterfly
A lovely blue butterfly found in southern North America, Central America, and northern South America. And butterfly farms, which is where I took this pic.
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Bloody-nosed beetle
I have only seen this type of beetle once while out walking in Oxfordshire Countryside I think this was a couple summers ago. Luckily I had my phone for a picture.
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Starling flock (slowmo in the snow)
I went out to film the snowfall in slow motion over the holiday season and as soon as I pressed the record button and looked up, a flock of starlings flew overhead. Lucky timing on my part 🙂
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Pale Clouded Yellow Butterfly
Pale clouded yellow butterfly, pictures taken with a Nikin D5500.
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Conehead Mantis – large
This was a real treat and I still don’t really know how my husband spotted it.
But there it was, aware of us too and seemingly wanting to start making a getaway.
But i managed to follow him around for a few minutes and see what a strange creature he really, even compared to the other mantises I had seen.
Goes down as one of the most alien creatures I have ever seen.
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Summer spiders 2020
There haven’t been many of late since the cold weather moved in, but in the summer we had lots of different spiders. Here are a few I managed to capture, they don’t hang around!
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