A Hoverfly with a brassy coloured thorax and dark abdomen, with minimal yellow markings.
Male Epistrophe eligans on a Bramble leaf, a dark individual with minimal yellow markings. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera #Hoverflies
A yellow-and-black banded Hoverfly on white blossom.
Male Syrphus hoverfly resting on Cherry blossom. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera #Hoverflies
Since my missed opportunity of seeing a #BeeFly last #WildWebsWednesday I am see them a plenty. Especially on sun warmed yellow starbursts of Lesser Celandine flowers.
One of two groups of Harlequin Ladybirds with lichen on a sarsen at Avebury yesterday #WildWebsWednesday
I think this is a Yellow-legged Mining Bee, Andrena flavipes - Happy to be corrected! - on a Lesser Celandine flower
This little Bee fitted perfectly into a Lesser Celandine Flower! #WildWebsWednesday
A red ladybird with 7 black spots on a cluster of small green buds with 2 textured leaves on either side; set against a lightly blurred background of mainly greens and brown
A 7-spot ladybird on the tightly packed green buds of an unopened flowerhead of the Wayfaring Tree, Viburnum lantana; set against a lightly blurred background
#WildWebsWednesday #InsectThursday #Ladybirds #Ladybugs #Trees #TreeFlowers #TreeClub
Two 7-spot ladybirds and one much smaller 14-spot ladybird together on a Nettle leaf
Little and large! Two 7-spot and one 14-spot gathered together on a Nettle leaf. #Ladybirds #WildWebsWednesday
An orangey red bee on a faded green leaf.
Tawny mining bee resting on a Ground ivy leaf. #WildWebsWednesday
Can’t resist stopping to watch a ladybird in the sunshine. Lots around on yesterdays walk #ladybirds #wildwebswednesday
Yesterday was a butterfly day. Lots on the wing plus a worn peacock sunning itself on the path, my first orange tip of the year and my first comma looking stunning in the sunshine and against the white blossom #wildwebswednesday #butterflys @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
From the top; outer and underwing of the speckled wood I saw, Two small tortoiseshell A perfect comma and my first holly blue Bottom; two peacocks, 2 of at least 12 seen
#WildWebsWednesday with all the beautiful #butterflies I took photos of yesterday; speckled wood, small tortoiseshell, comma, holly blue, peacock, also saw brimstones & a male orange-tip too fast to 📸 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #joy
One of the little mining bees, this one has a little blonde moustache
#WildWebsWednesday Not quite sure which mining #bee we saw on Saturday at #NTBeningborough but he/she had a super cute blond moustache! I think it's apple blossom they are sat on. #vitaminN @nationaltrust.org.uk
First comma butterfly of the year spotted yesterday on my walk along a a sheltered footpath in Ringsfield Suffolk #wildwebswednesday @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Two hoverflies sharing an interest in Goldilocks: Maybe Melanostoma scalare & Syrphus ribesii in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday. 🤔
#Hoverflies #Flies #Diptera
#WildWebsWednesday
Ferruginous Bee-grabber, Sicus ferrugineus, and a pollen beetle on a Colt's-foot flower in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social yesterday.
#Diptera #Flies #Conopidae #WildWebsWednesday
Salad Burnet Rust (Phragmidium sanguisorbae) on... surprise, surprise: Salad Burnet (Poterium sanguisorba subsp. sanguisorba) from County Durham
Too late for #WildWebsWednesday but just in time for #FungiFriday
With lots going on in the world, time to take a deep breath and hang out for a short while in a dandelion patch #Wildwebswednesday
A spot more sunshine and a few more regular sightings of bee flies over the past week #Wildwebswednesday
Side view of a brassy coloured Hoverfly on a green leaf edged with red.
Male Epistrophe eligans hoverfly on a Bramble leaf in Ely last weekend. #WildWebsWednesday #Hoverflies #Diptera
A Bumblebee feeding on a pink Red dead nettle flower.
Bumblebee on Red dead nettle. #WildWebsWednesday
A red and black spotted Ladybird on a Blackthorn branch, among faded pinkish white blossom.
Seven-spot ladybird on Blackthorn. #WildWebsWednesday
Possible #Leafhopper evading a photo good enough for ID 🤦
This tiny little thing was so small I thought it was a moth egg until it started moving.
#WildWebsWednesday
Different shades of pretty forget-me-nots seen this week
#WildWebsWednesday with pretty forget-me-nots flowering now in shades of pink/lilac/blue and also the little patch of white ones I've found. Tiny perfection! #bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers #Lancashire
Comma, peacock and brimstone butterflies all seen on previous 1st April
#WildWebsWednesday from previous 1st April's, very overcast today so I won't be adding to them sadly! #Lancashire/#SouthCumbria #butterflies #vitaminN
Seven-spot ladybird on pink flowers of Red dead nettle.
Seven-spot ladybird on Red dead nettle. #WildWebsWednesday
A bee on a blue flower.
Hairy-footed flower bee on Green alkanet in Cambridge last week. #WildWebsWednesday
