This beautiful Gatekeeper butterfly was from August in the garden. Giving me time and different backgrounds to get some fairly decent shots.
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Gatekeeper Butterfly
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Red Admiral Butterfly
I have been treated to a wonderful array of visitors with the buddlia blooming with big white buds this year. A few small purple ones, but it’s worked wonders. A mini butterfly farm in my own graden! This post is for the Red Admiral.
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Drone fly
Another regular to the garden, and to the buddleia.
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Coral and shadows
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Red Admiral slow take off
The buddleia has been attracting many butterflies and Bees today. I managed to catch a shot of one taking off while filming in slow motion. Check out the YouTube vid.
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Frogbit
The small pond has a flower! I thought something had fallen in, but it was a small white flower. I haven’t really taken many pictures of the pond yet as it really is very small, above ground and not as easy to photograph as I would like. This however, was a real treat to see as I wasn’t sure any of the small pond plants I bought would make it. After I dealt with the mosquito takeover it seemed ok.
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Bombus hortorum bee
Some of the new flowers I bought earlier in the year that survived the postage, the wildlife and the weather are now in full bloom and are bringing many bees in. I didn’t know they would be so bee friendly, but it’s a nice suprise. This visitor went through every flower on the salvia ‘hot lips’ one. It was quite a task to get some shots in while it was doing it’s thing, bit I got a couple of awesome ones. In the third picture you can really appreciate how long their tongues are to be able to get to the nectar with such long petals in the way.
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Meadow brown butterfly
Quite a change to the usual situation where I see a butterfly and they immediately sense my excitement and leave. Or they are often just passing through, as they do. But this one stayed for a while, even moving onto different plants and a leaves and waiting for me to take a shot. First three pics are from this month, the last one is from last year when it was the lavendar tempting them in. The buddleia has now established itself, so hopefully that will give them plenty to stop by for.
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Flower crab spider
It dawned on me that I frequently see pictures of crab spiders hiding under the petals of flowers, so thought I would go and give the calendula a look. It really is the flower that keeps on giving. There it was, just hiding under the petals as expected. I had to wait for it to come out, and contend with a very windy day. Nothing was staying still, but still I tried.
He didn’t seem happy once he spotted me and I have to give up and come back later. We was there for a couple of days until the flower was spent, so I did get my opportunity for a good shot.
This time he didn’t seem to mind being photographed and just waited, I was most pleased.
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