A close up photo of a very teeny spider. It’s got a deep brown head and legs and a black abdomen. It is sitting on its web, which was on the ground, attached to some leaves. Agelena labyrinthica - labyrinth spider
A photograph of a white butterfly on cuckoo flower. The spider is mostly white, with some grey tips on the wings and green and yellow mottling on the underwings. This is a female Orange tip butterfly. She is nectaring on a cuckoo flower. This is a dainty pinky flower and the orange tip caterpillar’s food plant. Anthocharis cardamines (orange tip) Cardamine pratensis (cuckoo flower)
A photograph of a comma butterfly on some cow parsley. This is a vibrant orange butterfly with some darker bordering and dots on its wings. It is resting on a cow parsley leaf, surrounded by more cow parsley, dandelions and lesser celandine. Polygonia c album
And a few more: an immature labyrinth spider, a female Orange tip butterfly and a comma
London, 6 April
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#Invertebrates #MacroPhotography #Butterflies #Diptera #Arachids #Spiders #Hoverflies #Lepidoptera
