PhotoDiary: Common Swallowtail

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Thursday, August 5, 2021

05/08/2021 Trying to catch up with the July diary!!

My apologies for the lack of posts, and also the lack of visits to your blogs. We seem to have been extra busy. We have been catching up with entertaining, people to who we have owed a meal for 15 months. Now we are all doubled vaccinated and we can have couples visiting, we are enjoying getting to chat with people other than to each other! Also, the Mirabelle plums have ripened in the past week and we have destoned over 1000 plums for dehydrating - still a few more on the tree so we have not finished yet!

I think this is the nymph of the Mottled Shield Bug, (Rhaphigaster nebulosa), but I am open to discussion.

Small tortoiseshell (Aglais urticae).

Common or European Toad (Bufo bufo) in the vegetable garden and well camouflaged.

Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth (Hemaris fuciformis)...

As above.

Scarce swallowtail (Iphiclides podalirius)...

As above...

Agapanthus with a bee, I am not sure which one it is!

Sunflower.

An unusual colour double poppy from one of the packets of mixed seed.

Lesser stag beetle (Dorcus paralellapipidus). Quite a cheeky little fellow, very aggressive and ready to attack!

Stargazer lily (Lilium 'Stargazer')

A stroll around the garden.

Tomato flower, grapes, quince,
Pattypan, Granny Smith, young Boer Pumpkin,
Sweet Potato flower, Courgette, Haricot Beans,
Medlar, figs, butternut flower.

Yet another smiling Sunflower.

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

My local list of wildflowers. (91 Species 20/06/2021).

Monday, April 26, 2021

26/04/2021 Still in lockdown!!

Maximum temperature here today 23⁰C, minimum 12⁰C. Dry though rain was forecast!! 14km/h North-Easterly winds with gusts up to 30 km/h. Looks like the chill returns again next week after a week of summer-like temperatures!

The garden is going to be in shock again next week as the temperature drops. There is also rain forecast, but if it is anything like today we will not see it! We need rain as the garden is very dry.

Sunset last week.

Common Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon).

As above...

As above.

The first of the peonies to open,

Small White (Pieris rapae)...

As above.

A near perfect Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria).

Around the garden. Top: Choisya ternata, Camellia, Pansy. Middle: Black Tulip, Pansy, Spanish Bluebells,. Bottom: Wilds Bluebells. Peony and Pansy.

Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

This bee has got me stumped so far still trying to find ID...

As above.

European Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata)...

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As above. Very destructive!!

Love is definitely in the air.

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis).

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

My local list of wildflowers. (90 Species 23/08/2020).

Monday, August 3, 2020

03/08/2020 A few photos mostly from the garden

Maximum temperature here today 23⁰C, minimum 13⁰C, by the weekend we will be back up to 38C again, the garden is struggling! A light shower that did not register in the rain gauge. 15km/h North-Westerly winds with gusts up to 44 km/h.

The first cosmos of 2020 (Cosmos bipinnatus) of this year.

A slightly bedraggled Common swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machon)...

As above

The Clouded Yellow brimstone (Colias croceus)....

As above.

Small Pincertail dragonfly (Onychogomphus forcipatus).

Garden Spider (Eriovixia laglaizei) I watched it for some time. It had caught a hummingbird hawk-moth which it duly wrapped up well in its web. It then cut the surrounding attachments leaving it at the top, and it the carried it up into its larder in the top of the greenhouse - fascinating....