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  • Any ideas? Found on a dhalia, Lincs uk


  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Yoga?
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    What is this bug on the polytunnel roof? I couldn’t get any closer, so it’s not the best photo. 





    Also, have had clouds of tortoiseshell butterflies today. It’s been like going back to the 1970s. These are just a few of them. 





    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    @Emirion - yes, funny how they suddenly appeared isn't it!  I didn't see any in my garden all year until this weekend, now there's a couple of them out on the verbena every day. 
    I remember growing up in the 80s they were so common they were as banal as cabbage whites. Now it's a pleasure to see them.
  • @TheVanguard - a Bush Cricket laying eggs?

    @Emerion - looks like some type of parasitic wasp? 

     :) 
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    Thanks @SherwoodArrow, I think you’re right, although I couldn’t find an exact match in google. 

    It’s funny how there are loads of tortoiseshell ones, @borgadr, I’m only seeing one or two peacocks, Red admirals and Commas. But there must have been 30-50 tortoiseshells at one point yesterday afternoon. Really delightful, feeling surrounded by them in every direction, like a Disney film 😁. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • I suspect that the butterflies are all from the same brood which had just emerged. The eggs are laid together.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited September 2021
    Surely they are competiton winning pictures @wild edges ... ?
    It's like it's been dipped in gold. Quite amazing!
    Little Alien. Picture of the year, I would say.
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