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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    What lovely shots @steephill
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Tonight's Springwatch discusses a seaslug that can photosynthesize. Couldn't humans try?
  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    edited June 2021
    Good morning all  :)

    Found this lovely bumblebee warming up on a clematis flower. Any one can identify it?

    Thanks

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143
    edited June 2021
    This is what happens when you sit under the pergola for a while, then come indoors to noodle on the forum ... you find someone crawling down the back of your neck ... 😆 

    He just wouldn’t stay still to have his picture taken 🤣 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    A shield bug
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143
    Yes ... it's our second this afternoon ... we get lots here ... the first was a Southern Green, but I can't find one, or an instar, that looks like the one I photographed on my hand ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Try the hawthorn shieldbug (and try to ignore the terrible latin name). https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Acanthosomatidae/a_haemorrhoidale.html
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,143
    That's the one @wild edges  ... obviously keen on honeysuckle and clematis as well as hawthorn  :D  Very lively ... when I took him back outside he hopped onto the grapevine so I hope he's happy there.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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