Having talked about Hummingbird Hawkmoths yesterday, I look out the window just now and there's one feasting on the Buddleia. Until I dashed for my camera that is.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
No photos as they move around too quickly. We have Buddleia davidii and globosa. The davidii is in a shrubbery and gets the afternoon sun. The globosa gets late morning sun and then in full sun. The davidii rarely has a butterfly on the flowers while the globosa is teeming with them (peacocks, red admiral, small tortoiseshell, comma, ringlet) as well as so many bees. Great to sit and have lunch watching them. Waiting for the painted ladies.
Of course @LunarSea! 😄 A few from my lunchtime butterfly hunt - the skippers drive me insane, I can never decide if small or large varieties, maybe both small?? After the gatekeeper of course. @wild edges I bet you know!
And more of those crazy-looking wasps. At first I thought they were having a romantic moment, but it actually looks like the top one is latched on to the neck of the bottom one.
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
A few from my lunchtime butterfly hunt - the skippers drive me insane, I can never decide if small or large varieties, maybe both small?? After the gatekeeper of course. @wild edges I bet you know!
I think it may well be a romantic moment, lots of flying insects have the clamping on habit.