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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Looks like a vapourer moth caterpillar @LizaJ
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LizaJLizaJ Posts: 51
    wild edges said:
    Looks like a vapourer moth caterpillar @LizaJ
    Thank you wild edges
  • robairdmacraignilrobairdmacraignil Posts: 782
    Got the impression these were like solitary wasps but they were hanging out in a small group on a dead growing tip in the garden this evening. Only ever seen them on their own previously but counted six in this group. Any one know if they are just taking a rest together or are they doing something specific?
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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    robairdmacraignil said:
    Any one know if they are just taking a rest together or are they doing something specific?
    It's hard to tell but they look like one of the blood bees and possibly males by the white fur on the face. Was there any sap or anything like that on the twig that might have attracted them?

    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
    More nocturnal fun last night. I found this Ivy Bee sleeping under the tip of a comfrey leaf, holding onto the mid-rib with its jaws,
    and this harvestman finishing off someone else's dinner.
    I kept getting distracted though because moths kept landing on me. Like this Shaded broad-bar,
    and this guy who I think is called 'The uncertain' but I can't be sure...


    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
    Harvestmen are truly odd creatures though. The eye looks oddly frog-like.
    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
    Beautiful camera work
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I found the ivy bee sleeping on the eryngium last night and checked on it first thing this morning to see if I could get some photos before it got too active. It was very obliging :)


    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
    @wild edges  Do you know the work of Jennifer Owens?
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    This is a wonderful video from Great Dixter on gardening for biodiversity.
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