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Insects of the day

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  • BrexiteerBrexiteer Posts: 955
    This little lady came today ☺
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    @Bijdezee Depending on the species, the dragonflies & damselflies season runs from early May to September.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Spotted this "crab spider" on the foliage of my Geranium Rozanne this morning.
  • JellyfireJellyfire Posts: 1,139
    Bijdezee said:
    I set out a small pond with water plants and rush like 'stuff'. What time of the year are dragonflies about? 
    Started seeing damsels over the last few days, a lot of the bigger ones are on the wing from about June 
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    The Asian ladybeetle (Harmonia axyridis) is back in my garden and ... quite active.




  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    Yesterday I noticed theres a tiny cricket living on my newish container raspberries. A speckled bush cricket I think. Not sure if I have a population I haven't noticed or if an overwintering egg(s) came in on the raspberries. I suspect the latter given the immaturity of the cricke and the raspberries' location away from other plants.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Could anyone put a name to this little fellow?


  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Your grasshopper looks like it's the speckled bush-cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima).
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Thank you @Papi Jo! Lovely bug.
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 716
    Not sure about their names, but found them in our garden the other day... 






    Surrey
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