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Insects of the day

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Fully grown Vapourer Moth caterpillar.  Dazzling aren't they! :)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Big Blue SkyBig Blue Sky Posts: 716
    Thank you @BobTheGardener
    I actually had to look her up - wow, hopefully she sticks around my garden so I can see he when she becomes a real flying moth 😊
    Surrey
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Lovely critter that Vapourer Moth caterpillar!
    Here are my insects of the day, captured between two showers of rain. We are getting much too much rain these days where I live.
    Shield bug Dolycoris baccarum tastefully resting on assorted Penstemon 'garnet'!
    Oedemera nobilis aka swollen-thighed beetle

    Oedemera nobilis with little friend
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    Some of the more unusual insects Papi Jo, lovely pictures too - are these insects regularly seen in your garden?
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Actually those insects are quite common both in the wild and in my garden. But many insects go unseen, other than butterflies and damsel flies. You have to be on the lookout. ;)
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    That shield bug's well camouflaged too  :)
    Lovely pix
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    Bees on our pond log, but what type are they - we have plenty them, are they Honey Bees?
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    edited June 2019
    2 butterflies in my garden today, well, one is still a caterpillar, but looking promising!
    Papilio machaon (caterpillar on Ruta graveolens)
    Six-spot burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) on flowers of seaside fleabane (Erigeron glaucus)


  • ForTheBeesForTheBees Posts: 168
    I had a small tortoiseshell feeding on one of my pincushion scabious this lunchtime. Also I had a wool carder bee having a nap on a alium. It finally flew off late mornings Ng having been there overnight.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    @Papi Jo  -  a swallowtail? Amazing.
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