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  • poppyfield64poppyfield64 Posts: 332
    @Nollie thank and I love your dragonfly.  I've never actually seen one close up in real life.  Did see a hummingbird hawk-moth last year but none of us could get a decent photo.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I caught this Common Candy-striped spider getting undressed. I like the shapes of the petals flowing through the frame though.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    and just another tiny beige moth to add to the collection.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Who knew wasp identifying was so hard :|  I found this one with a similar crown shape on its face and thought I'd be able to take some better photos to verify the ID of yesterday's wasp. Now I've enlarged them on the computer I can see it doesn't have yellow sections at the base of the antennae so it's not the same species. To make it even harder this seems to be a German Wasp but they normally have three separate dots on the face not joined up like this and should have more yellow above and behind the eye.



    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457
    Dovefromabove said:

    Gorgeous Papi Joe ... haven't seen a Cinnabar Moth caterpillar for a few years now ... the numbers are declining rapidly ... probably due to the war being waged on ragwort which is their main food plant.

    So glad I leave a bit of ragwort every year after reading this Dove.  My instinct is to weed but stop myself because I know this is their main food plant.  However, since lockdown i've managed to clear two large areas of weeds so I'm a bit worried that I didn't leave enough.  They've stripped the existing and are now moving to nearby plants.  I will deffo leave more next year.


  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Look at the eye pattern on this Wool Carder bee B)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Amazing.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That wasp has a maple leaf on its face, so it's probably Canadian rather than German.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    B3 said:
    That wasp has a maple leaf on its face, so it's probably Canadian rather than German.
    Three leaf lobes. Must be a field maple and native to continental Europe. ;)

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Andy Shaw2Andy Shaw2 Posts: 9


    Had a few of these in the garden the past few days, now just found one in the sink. Are they some sort of hornet?
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