It might seem minor, but it's our first willdlife triumph for that plot. I've not seen any butterfly there before. Apparently they love black medick - and we have lots of that locally. Hurrah!
It might seem minor, but it's our first willdlife triumph for that plot. I've not seen any butterfly there before. Apparently they love black medick - and we have lots of that locally. Hurrah!
It's a good one to have a first too.
This one may seem even more minor but it's my first brown lacewing. It landed on my lamp so I bounced the light off the wall for a silhouette. The larvae are fierce aphid killers so I hope it's breeding here.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Another fun one from the Latin name stable: Pebble Prominent, Notodonta ziczac. Named in 1758 in Sweden but I can't find what it means. Linnaeus seems to use ziczac for a few different species of animal so I'm guessing it's something similar to zigzag and describes patterns maybe.
A nicely marked Yellow Shell
and brothers from different mothers, the Tawny Speckled Pug and the Common Marbled Carpet. It's just interesting to see how they both use the same pattern and colour.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Here is a humble mint moth. It can't compete with rosy-footed chimney sweepers, but hey ho. They enjoy the salvia hedge.
And a brocade moth caterpillar. The front garden is heaving with them. I like that they thrive on the linaria but they are not sharing. They have stripped pretty much every leaf and left nothing to flower for the bees or me. I have had stern words, but I don't think they're listening.
The toadflax brocade is in decline apparently so it's good you're looking after them. No mint moths here this year either now you come to mention it. I wonder what's happened to them?
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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