18/06/2020 A few flowers over the last few days mostly from home.

Maximum temperature here today 17⁰C, minimum 11⁰C. Rain measured this morning 11 mm. 15km/h South-Westerly winds with gusts up to 42 km/h.

Orchid in the house.

Poinsettia in the house, still holding on since Christmas and it has new shoots.

Rose from our garden...

and a few days later.  Wish I could add the perfume.

Potato flower - our garden and an unknown bug.

The start of grapes - our garden.

Hydrangea - our garden.

Violas - our garden.

A neighbour's clematis.

A neighbour's honeysuckle.

A dahlia from down the road.

My local list of wildflowers. (69 Species 18/06/2020)

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More insects from May and June Part 3

Maximum temperature here today 17⁰C, minimum 10⁰C. Rain measured this morning 5 mm. 27km/h South-Westerly winds with gusts up to 62 km/h.

Small white butterfly (Pieris rapae).

Possibly a spotted fritillary (Melitaea didyma), I did not get to see the underside of its wings.

Damselfly Beautiful demoiselle (Calopteryx Virgo) female.

As above, male.

Common Clubtail Dragonfly (Gomphus vulgatissimus).

Red-and-black Froghopper (Cercopis vulnerata).

Bee on the cotoneaster.

Common green bottle fly (Lucilia sericata).

Bee on a Californian poppy.

Bumble bee, possibly (Bombus terrestris).

Red admiral butterfly (Vanessa Atlanta).

Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae). They are very colourful if only it had opened its wings!

Carpenter bee  (Xylocopa violacea or Xylocopa valga).

Marbled White (Melanargia galathea)...

As above...

As above

Bombylius species...

as above.

Red-brown Longhorn Beetle (Stictoleptura rubra) both males...

As above.

My thanks to Richard once again for ID of the damsels and dragon. 

My local list of wild flowers. (67 Species 12/06/2020)

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 Bird blog

Lots if insects out walking - Part 2

Maximum temperature here today 18⁰C, minimum 11⁰C. Rain measured this morning 5 mm. 17km/h South-Westerly winds with gusts up to 46 km/h.

It appears that there will still be a part 3 for May insects!!  Perhaps it is good that we are having a few rainy days and I am not taking many photos in June as yet!!

Glanville fritillary butterfly (Melitaea cinxia).

Damselfly (Calopteryx splendens) Female.

  

Damselfly (Calopteryx splendens) Male...

As above

Damselfly (Calopteryx splendens or C Virgo!) Male.

Damselflies - (Coenagrion puella).

Bumblebee on the lavender.

There was quite an orgy going on with hundreds of these Graphosoma italicum mating making very sure they did not become extinct!!

As above...

As above.

Beetle longhorn (Rutpela_maculata). It was very windy and I was lucky to get any photo at all with the wind blowing the flower all over the place.

Coma butterfly (Polygonia c-album).

Green-veined white butterfly (Pieris napi).

Holly Blue butterfly  (Celastrina argiolus).

Meadow brown butterfly (Maniola jurtina) male...

As above.

Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa Atlanta).

Scarce swallowtail butterfly (Iphiclides podalirius)...

As above.

My thanks to Richard for ID once again of some of the difficult (for me) insects.  If you have not visited his blog I highly recommend it.  Any mistakes on ID are very much my own as I sometimes think I know better than to ask!!!

Our local list of wild flowers

See also my

 Bird blog