Insects of the day

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  July 2020

  wild edges said:

  [...] The only reliable way to tell is by looking at their genitals and I've no great urge to spend my time looking at moth willies
  

  
  @wild edges

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• wild edges Posts: 10,497

  July 2020

  Frustrating photo of the week. I got it set up just as the sun went behind a dark cloud and I had to drop the shutter speed, hence the motion blur on the antennae.
  

  

  If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  July 2020

  Gorgeous photo, WE. Perfectionism is the death of creativity. Celebrate what you have got there.
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  July 2020

  What is it? It looks like a fly you'd get on eBay

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• wild edges Posts: 10,497

  July 2020

  B3 said:

  What is it? It looks like a fly you'd get on eBay

  Oh yeah I forgot that bit. It's a ruby tailed wasp which is a parasite of solitary bee nests and I imagine why they seem to hang around my bug hotels. An interesting blog on the mixed feelings this causes here https://markavery.info/2020/06/25/guest-blog-i-wish-i-had-swatted-it-by-jonathan-wallace/
  
  

  If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  

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• wild edges Posts: 10,497

  July 2020 edited July 2020

  
  

  If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  

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• 1634 Racine Posts: 568

  July 2020

  I really am noticing a lot more butterflies this year.  Aren’t the colours amazing
  
  
  

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  July 2020

  B3 said:

  What is it? It looks like a fly you'd get on eBay

  🤣🤣🤣
  
  

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• FlyDragon Posts: 834

  July 2020

  1634 Racine said:

  I really am noticing a lot more butterflies this year.  Aren’t the colours amazing
  
  
  

  I found one of these trapped in my living room on the vertical blinds this morning, presumably having come in yesterday evening without me noticing.  Quite sluggish and not keen to fly even when out in fresh air.  I popped it into the wildflower patch, hope it recovered. 

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• 1634 Racine Posts: 568

  July 2020

  FlyDragon said:

  1634 Racine said:

  I really am noticing a lot more butterflies this year.  Aren’t the colours amazing
  
  
  

  I found one of these trapped in my living room on the vertical blinds this morning, presumably having come in yesterday evening without me noticing.  Quite sluggish and not keen to fly even when out in fresh air.  I popped it into the wildflower patch, hope it recovered. 

  You could have tried the sugar syrup thing to see if it perked up.  Works for bees.  Maybe not for butterflies.
  
  I’m sure he will be fine 🦋 

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