Beefly resting in the glorious sunshine next to the pond.
And off he flies after a quick sunbathing escapade. Very difficult to get a close up.
Bee fly, best I could get before he flew off. 🌱 🐝🪰
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Bright yellow blooms. Bringing much joy.
This shrub planted last year, a birthday gift from my son. Love the bare branches peppered with bright yellow flowers.
Forsythia in bloom, a fairly young plant. 🌱😁
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Black and yellow striped buff-tailed bumblebee queen sitting on a leaf
Black and yellow striped buff-tailed bumblebee queen sitting on a leaf
The queens are back! This lovely lady is my first buff-tailed bumblebee queen of the year. She was out and about yesterday looking for a nest hole
#signsofspring
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The stoneflies are out after a long, cold winter. Normally not my favorite bug but their appearance heralds spring.
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Beautiful 👇
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Black and yellow striped Ichneuman wasp on a grass stem
Black and yellow striped Ichneuman wasp on a grass stem
Rescued this ichneuman wasp (I think) from a water trough this weekend in Bristol. I was quite surprised to see it out and about in late December but hopefully it's none the worse for its swim...
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Ginger coloured hairy ruby tiger moth caterpillar on stone
Black hairy ruby tiger moth caterpillar on wooden board
Stonechat perched on barbed wire fence with a hairy caterpillar in its beak
I saw quite a few second brood ruby tiger moth caterpillars down in southern Scotland last week, including one that won't be overwintering like its brethren as it was lunch for a male stonechat.
The circle of life...
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Marvellous Moss. 👌
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Small greenish dragonfly perched on a finger
Made a new friend during a survey on Mull this last week, a lovely black darter
This is either a female or immature male and may be the last dragonfly I see this year, always a sad moment
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Still a few caddis on the wing: Limnephilus lunatus (with the 🌙 mark) and the anglers’ Grey Sedge: Hydropsyche sp.
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Red admiral butterfly feeding on a cream many flowered buddleia plant
Peacock and speckled wood butterflies feeding on cream buddleia plant
Peacock butterfly feeding on a cream buddleia plant
Small tortoiseshell butterfly feeding on a cream buddleia plant
Saw loads of red admiral on this buddleia variant last week, plus speckled woods and a lone peacock and tortoiseshell. Buddleia is a tricky one; provides vital energy for insects, but is this at the expense of native plants that miss out on those insects' pollination services?
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Small brown circle structures on the underside of a leaf
Small brown circle structures on the underside of a leaf
Small brown circle structures on the underside of a leaf
Galls are flipping amazing...produced by a chemical reaction stimulated by a tiny wasp, each of these silk button galls on the undersides of oak leaves contains a larva that will develop even once the leaf has fallen and emerge next spring
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Greenish dragonfly perched on a plant stem
Greenish dragonfly perched on the ground
Reddish green dragonfly perched on pink heather
These common darters, meanwhile, will be on the wing in numbers well into October...
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Rear view of an orange comma butterfly on ling heather
Just a week after seeing my most northerly comma near home in Easter Ross, I saw this even more northerly individual at Loch Fleet NNR. Commas have expanded their range north pretty rapidly over the last few decades, likely down to climate change
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Orange and black small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly on a blue harebell
Orange and black small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly on a blue harebell
Orange and black small pearl-bordered fritillary butterfly on a blue harebell
A, presumably, second brood small pearl-bordered fritillary from a couple of weeks ago at Loch Fleet NNR
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Within 5 minutes of popping the Salvia plant outside, the bees were on it.
Salvia Mystic Spires. Grown by adults for a charity in Kidderminster.
Nothing more satisfying than bees attending rich in pollen garden plants. 🐝
New Salvia for the garden, bee approval immediate. 🐝🌱😁
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Commercially grown lavander.
Close up of lavander flowers.
My friend recently visited these wonderful lavender fields, she took these images. 💜 I hope to visit them next year. 😁
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Small blue butterfly perched on a grass stem
Small blue butterfly perched on a grass stem
Absolutely made up to see this second brood small blue at Dornoch dunes a couple of days ago. I'd read a Scottish second brood was on the cards due to Spring's good numbers, and it looks to be the case
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Stealth predator, crab spider hiding in the rose. Looks like something out of Mars Attack.
The Flower Crab spider that resembles an octopus 😳🌱
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Bee life. 🌱🐝
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Large blue and dark brown dragonfly in flight over pondweed
Large green, blue and dark brown dragonfly perched on a conifer twig
Had brilliant views of both common (L) and southern (R) hawkers at a local pond last week. Wonderful aerial predators, both
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Probably a buff tailed bee covered in sunflower pollen. A beautiful sight to see. 🐝🌻
In the thick of it. 🐝🌻
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Shropshire Petal Fields. 🌻🌼🪻
Bee life. 🐝😊
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Silver Y moth. Beautiful brown colours. White Y shaped markings on each wing.
Great camouflage from this moth resting on a metal garden plant support. Very difficult to see at first glance.
Camouflage 👀🌱
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Female (L) and male emerald damselflies, plus a pair doing the do, from last week in the Highlands
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Female black darter checking me out
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Female (L) and male black darters from Monadh Mor Woods, Highland last week
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Two Hover flies enjoying the gifts the Zinnia provides. Possible Marmalade hover flies. Soft pink petals, bright yellow and pink center. Grown from seed.
Zinnia 🌱🐝
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Small caterpillar. Yellow middle with red circles along it's body. Very hairy caterpillar.
Black body, yellow stripe along the middle of its body. With red circles along the sides of its body. Very long hairs all over. Black hairy tuft like a tail.
Grey Dagger caterpillar 🌱🐛
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