A first for me this year, getting a photo of a comma butterfly. Maybe I have seen them before, but thought they were something else with slightly damaged wings. Now I now they are a whole different type 🙂
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Comma butterfly
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Hummingbird hawkmoth in the garden
A real treat to see one of these in my garden, a few times in one day, and actually saw one again this morning. The buddleia is doing a very good job this year, catering for plenty of bees, butterflies, moth, hoverflies, beetles and various other small insects. Got a few good pics and fottage of it flying around, but they aren’t easy!
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Gatekeeper butterfly
Had plenty of opportunity to photograph some gatekeepers, they thoroughly enjoyed the lavender.
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Damselfly hatches
An extremely exciting event occurred, this one in the small observation tank. I happened to glance in and saw a speedy darting creature. It looked pretty well formed and I realised it had nothing to climb out onto! I filmed it as well as best I could.
So, i put in a bamboo pole in case it needed to get out, which it did, within a very short time.
I was then rooted to the spot for as long as could (dinner got in the way), but I stayed for much of the transformation.
It was pretty awesome to watch.
Beautiful.
And quite a special thing to witness.
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Thick legged flower beetle
This little gem was around last week, haven’t seen one in the garden before so quite pleased with that.
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Rescue bee
It was caught up in a spider web, and after rescue tucked up under a flower for the night. Still there today and looking a bit tired still, even after sugar water. No sun to warm up with 😔
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Ladybird Marching through
Every day for a few days I have seen a ladybird around the same place in the garden, it may be the same one but I can’t be sure 😉
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Shield Bugs
Some pictures I have gathered over the years of shield bugs, quite the variety of them it seems.
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Summer caterpillars
Hoping for another year of lots of insects 💚
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Bee in the hole
The bee hotel has given me a great opportunity to watch the Bees doing their thing. Resting, gathering and nesting, its very cool. I’ll do more posts of them but this pic from last week is one of my favs.
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