Half an Hour in the Garden
With a sore back and other things to do today, I wasn’t able to manage a patch walk (and now won’t until Wednesday due to working nights for 5 nights, man this is going to be tough!). But I decided instead to spend half an hour wandering the garden. That makes it sound huge, it isn’t its a small suburban garden, wandering was a bit of an exaggeration. Looking at the bugs; hoverflies; and what ever else turned up. And I have to say it was rather pleasant, with the sun beating down and the insects out in force.
The One That Got Away
I’m going to start with a disappointment, I spotted in the garden a jewel wasp (these are the small green and red wasps that are tiny), but unfortunately I didn’t manage to get a photo, and it disappeared off into the mass of weeds pretty quickly, but I was really happy to see what is arguably one of the prettiest wasps in the world.
Unknown Beetle – Great Holm, Milton Keynes |
Half an Hour in the Garden
Sphaerophoria Sp. (Full species ID appreciated) – Great Holm, Milton Keynes |
Xanthogramma Pedissequum – Great Holm, Milton Keynes |
Green Bottle sp? – Great Holm, Milton Keynes |
FLy sp? – Great Holm, Milton Keynes |
Spider sp? – Great Holm, Milton Keynes |
An Unexpected Moth or Two
Presumably having come in when the moth trap was on last night I spotted two moths in the garden, a Willow Beauty (my first of the year as it goes) and a stunning Buff Arches.
Willow Beauty – Great Holm, Milton Keynes |
Buff Arches – Great Holm, Milton Keynes |
It all just goes to show that a quick look in the garden can produce some wonderful species, you just have to get down and dirty with them.
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6 Comments
Angela Moore
Wow what amazing photos the insects are so crystal clear. I agree its easy to forget that there is so much to see in our own back gardens, and sometimes we are so busy gardening you can forget to look around and investigate a it.
Angela
AshleyBeolens
Thank you. It is a great little world at our fingertips that is so easily overlooked but is a great resource for finding wildlife.
Eco Gites of Lénault
Love the eyes on the flies – no wonder the little devils see us coming and et out of the way so fast!
AshleyBeolens
Insect eyes really are amazing to behold.
Dee B
The one from the Sphaerophoria species is so beautiful. Very nicely captured. Loved all the photos.
AshleyBeolens
Thank you, and they can be pretty hard to capture being so swift on the wing