But the best news of the day for me is that the Longhorn moths returned. This hopefully means that last year's visiting group have now turned into a resident breeding population. I hope to get better photos...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
A new moth species too; Esperia sulphurella. No common name so you know it's a good one to spot. The 60th species of moth I've been able to identify in the garden now (with 15 or so still waiting for me to work out what they are).
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
The spider is a zebra jumping spider, the first hoverfly I think is a male Sphaerophoria scripta (long hoverfly) but I couldn't get a good photo of the body markings, the bee is male but that's about all I can tell, and the last one I'm tentatively IDing as a female Platycheirus granditarsus hoverfly.
I'd say you are spot on with your crab spider. Misumena vatia.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Species 300 in the photographic bioblitz of my garden: The common nettle tap moth. A day flying moth that like nettles and won't bloody sit still to have its photo taken.
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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