I'm so please you posted that photo @Sheps because I found one lone caterpillar when weeding a wee while ago and had no idea what it was.
The other day, Oh was strimming down one of the bits of grass we left unmowed and which produced a wonderful "meadow" of wild carrot, achillea, assorted daisies and malva but which had stopped flowering and all gone brown. He'd stopped because he'd spotted a beautiful praying mantis. I was so busy guiding it to safety I didn't think to take a photo.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Gold Spot moths from this morning, sorry for posting the first image again ( it's in the Moth Trapping thread ) it's for context in relation to the second shot I suppose.
I went for a walk with my local butterfly conservation group yesterday and saw a couple of good'uns that I'd not seen before: The main event- the brown hairstreak And a brown argus
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The other day, Oh was strimming down one of the bits of grass we left unmowed and which produced a wonderful "meadow" of wild carrot, achillea, assorted daisies and malva but which had stopped flowering and all gone brown. He'd stopped because he'd spotted a beautiful praying mantis. I was so busy guiding it to safety I didn't think to take a photo.
Keep 'em coming @Sheps
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Failure is always an option.
The main event- the brown hairstreak
And a brown argus