I like this photo for its ying-yang like balance even if it's a bit rubbish otherwise. I'm not sure who is hunting whom but the spider lives between the greenhouse frame and the glass and the ichneumon seemed to be having a good investigate before deciding not to move on.
Not the best day to be taking portraits with natural light sadly.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The working title of this piece is 'Aircraft wreckage. Or how someone left Marmalade smeared on my radishes. An example of the ineffectiveness of Batesian mimicry'. Snappy huh?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The working title of this piece is 'Aircraft wreckage. Or how someone left Marmalade smeared on my radishes. An example of the ineffectiveness of Batesian mimicry'. Snappy huh?
I'm finding this comment a bit too cryptic for my slow understanding, @wild edges Could you please explain what we see on the pic and enlighten me on the "marmalade-cum-radishes" combo? Thanks!
'Batesian mimicry' I got the definition from the Web.
Rubbish photographer with an ancient ipad here, but butterflies and moths only recently seem to have got going here - a month of solid rain got in the way.
Verbena B is heaving with bees plus fritillaries, scarce swallowtails and broad-bordered bee hawkmoths - you can just make out a fuzzy one of the latter in the middle photo:
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Verbena B is heaving with bees plus fritillaries, scarce swallowtails and broad-bordered bee hawkmoths - you can just make out a fuzzy one of the latter in the middle photo: