I have not seen one of these before @Hippophae so thank you for posting and also to @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool for being able to name the Rose Chafer for us.
@Fairygirl I have been nurturing 23 box plants for a number of years, grown from a couple of plants and cuttings from them,..... If fate says they become food hey ho. @GuernseyDonkey lovely you have bees, I only know leaf cutters as they are here and have been making neat circles out of various plants. it is the one kind of leaf damage I sort of welcome. They are so clever. Though not sure one was so smart filling an overflow pipe in our house wall
Loving the beetle @Hippophae, and Fairy your caterpillar is a wee furry fellow, I just checked my moth book he is an Oak Eggar, (edited again).
New butterfly to add to the garden list - a small copper was feeding on my Anthemis tinctoria 'E.C. Buxton. IIRC that brings my list up to 11 species for the year.
Fab bee pic @wild edges I've seen them [oak eggars] a few times on hills, Ruby, so as soon as I saw the name it jogged my memory. They're quite fascinating close up. I'd just managed to avoid treading on a very tiny lizard, so I was relieved to avoid him and get a couple of pix
Hope your box survives, but that's certainly a very attractive moth. Swings and roundabouts eh?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Hippophae The rose chafer is fairly common in our part of Europe, although not quite as frequently found as some years ago. I posted a pic of a nice specimen I took early in June this year. Here it is again:
PS.- Pity the only bit of your "amateur naturalist thing" in your pics is your thumb.
Trying to fly, the story of a Trichodes apiarius (checkered beetle) in my garden.
This fairly rare insect is spotted occasionally in the West of France, and considered as extinct in England. See this list: http://speciesrecoverytrust.org.uk/LostLife.html#Beetles go down to the end of that list, it says Trichodes apiariusExtinct: 1830.
Asleep on echinacea flower
Awake and moving towards the takeoff runway
Engines running, wings spread, ready for take-off
Missed again. Disgusted. Something wrong with the flying apparatus?
What fab pictures Papi Jo, that really is a foreign insect to me - I am not sure if it has been recorded in Guernsey or Jersey - after all we aren't that far away from Brittany if the wind is in the right direction.
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https://www.uksafari.com/rosechafers.htm
If fate says they become food hey ho.
@GuernseyDonkey lovely you have bees, I only know leaf cutters as they are here and have been making neat circles out of various plants. it is the one kind of leaf damage I sort of welcome. They are so clever. Though not sure one was so smart filling an overflow pipe in our house wall
Loving the beetle @Hippophae, and Fairy your caterpillar is a wee furry fellow, I just checked my moth book he is an Oak Eggar, (edited again).
I've seen them [oak eggars] a few times on hills, Ruby, so as soon as I saw the name it jogged my memory. They're quite fascinating close up. I'd just managed to avoid treading on a very tiny lizard, so I was relieved to avoid him and get a couple of pix
Hope your box survives, but that's certainly a very attractive moth. Swings and roundabouts eh?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...