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Thursday, September 30, 2021

30/09/2021 A few bugs and reptiles from the garden....

The maximum temperature here today is 19⁰C, minimum 8⁰C. Rain is due from tomorrow forecast for a whole week!. Wind 9km/h icy South-Easterly winds with gusts up to 16 km/h!

I have so many photos for September and I have had no time to go through them all. Here are just a few so that you know I am still in existence!!

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis Muralis).

Gatekeeper butterfly (Pyronia tithonus)...

As above.

Great Banded Furrow Bee (Halictus scabiosae) I think

Wasp (Scolia hirta).

Common Heath, a moth of the family Geometridae.(Ematurga atomaria).

Small White (Pieris rapae) better known as a Cabbage White...

As above.

A pretty battered but happy Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia)...

As above...

As above.

European Peacock Butterly (Aglais io)...

As above.

Common blue butterfly - male (Polyommatus icarus)...

As above.

Common blue butterfly - female (Polyommatus icarus)...

As above...

As above.

Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera).

Not sure which bee this is, the flower is Sedum but which variety I do not know!

Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis Muralis).

Carpenter bees, (Xylocopa violacea) or (Xylocopa valga), very similar...

As above.

Map butterfly (Araschnia levana)...

As above.

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....