Also this White Plume moth that came to visit in the early hours of this morning is now the 350th species in my photographic garden bioblitz. The caterpillars feed on bindweed so I'm now paranoid that there's some lurking in the garden somewhere that I haven't noticed.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I was wondering if they were cocoons not eggs so I cracked one open. The outer shell was incredibly hard but I managed to tease one apart. There was an egg inside
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I was wondering if they were cocoons not eggs so I cracked one open. The outer shell was incredibly hard but I managed to tease one apart. There was an egg inside
This is getting more and more interesting (and weird). What next?
I noticed some small (<10mm) wasps coming from a nest earlier this evening, and was about to follow them to see what they were eating, when I noticed (could hardly miss) this Volucella zonaria hoverfly sitting on a blueberry leaf near the nest. It's a hornet mimic and one of our largest hoverflies at 2cm. I remembered reading that their larvae can live in wasp nests without being stung and was amazed (and lucky enough) to see it fold its wings and then simply saunter into the wasps nest! A couple of wasps checked it out as it neared, but just carried on their business.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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