PhotoDiary: Small Tortoiseshell

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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, June 21, 2021

21/06/2021 The last of the photos waiting from May!

The maximum temperature here today 23⁰C, minimum 13⁰C. Lots of rain over the past week - 79 mm. Wind 14km/h North Westerly winds with gusts up to 40 km/h. More rain forecast.

Love in a Mist (Nigella damascena). Californian poppies in the background.

Hoverfly next to the Rhododendron flower.

Dog roses (Rosa canina). They are wild here, but we have them growing vigorously in one of the cotoneaster shrubs

Viola (Violaceae family).

Chafer beetle (Oxythyrea funesta).

Common Wall Lizards (Podarcis Muralis)... spot that new tail!

As above...

As above. She looks like she might well be pregnant!

Black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus). I think, or Dark Vader from outer space.

I was about to throw these roses out that were in a vase in the house, (they had survived 2 weeks so they had done very well), and then I spotted an intruder.

Eurasian Running Crab Spider (Philodromus dispar)...