Those are great photos @steephill . We had a pair of Green Woodpeckers pass by the allotments a little while ago. It still gives me a bit of a start when I see something out of the ordinary like that. Unfortunately, I'm just not quick enough on the draw with the camera, and the birds get bored while I'm trying to get them in focus and fly away.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
I was really pleased to find a wasp beetle in the garden, first one I've seen around here. It was getting dark and rainy so I struggled to get decent pics but luckily it was fairly torpid with the cool weather. The weird thing with these is that I know they're harmless but I'm still apprehensive handling them. Batesian mimicry doing its job I suppose.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Can anyone identify these? I know it is a grass hopper, but does it have a special name? There were quite a few of them in the nature walk, and what is the plant they are attracted to here, I think it may be a wild parsnip??
That's a cricket rather than a grass hopper by the looks of it. There's a few green ones but they usually need a closer look to ID. Could be a great green cricket or speckled maybe. The bottom one looks like a soldier beetle.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Some of these pictures are going to give me nightmares. That toad of @scroggin 's looks the size of a dog, and I'm sure those wasps that @wild edges found were in a 'B' (or Bee) movie I saw once.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
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