19/11/2024 Oh dear I am even further behind....

The maximum temperature in the Charente today was 14⁰C, minimum 9⁰C. 90% rain is forecast for today. A North/West wind of 33km/h with gusts up to 63km/h.

I just liked this cloud!

Sunset.

Fly !  Possibly Dexia rustica but not sure

Orchid

Orchids, they did well this year

House flower, (Kalanchoe).

Wild chicory (Cichorium intybus).

Jersey Tiger Moth (Euplagia quadripunctaria).

Speckled wood (Pararge aegeria).

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)....

As above...

As above.

Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) and Holly Blue butterfly (Celastrina argiolus).

Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus)....

As above

BumbleBee (Bombus lucorum) on the lavender.

If you look closely there are 3 bees involved here with pumpkin pollination.

Clematis and here ends the best of August's photos.

Calendula.

Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album).

A stormy sunset.

Belle de Nuit, Night Beauty or 4 o'clock Flower (Mirabilis jalapa L)....

As above, just a change of colour.

House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) female.

Another sunset

Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Small white butterfly (Pieris rapae) male.

Male house Sparrow taking a bath (Passer domesticus).

Pampas grass.

   Flower Crab Spider also called Goldenrod Crab Spider.  French name: Thomise variable, (Misumena vatia)

Yep, another bee....

as above.

I think this may be a Small White butterfly female, but I am not convinced with the green tinge!

Southern sickle-bearing bush-cricket (Phaneroptera falcata) I think,  it is on a Calendula flower.

As above.

The Winter daffodil also called an Autumn crocus (Sternbergia lutea),

Grasshopper (Calliptamus barbarus).

A late sunflower with what I think is a hoverfly.

I think this is also a Bush-cricket but at a different stage of development than the ones above.  I am happy to have other suggestions. 

This is the best of what was left of August and all of September but life seems to keep getting in the way of blogging. I do though put a daily photo on blipfoto.com under the name of Charente, if you have never tried it take a look it is a fabulous community.

Please note for some unknown reason google keeps changing what I type when I hit publish so forgive me if there are a few oddities that it will not let me add what I want.... if it lets me add this!!!!!  4th try!

07/10/2024 Still trying to catch up from July/August!!

  The maximum temperature in the Charente today was 21⁰C, minimum 14⁰C.  10mm's of rain last night, but 90% rain is forecast for today. Southerly wind of 24km/h with gusts up to 53km/h.

Climbing Rose with the smallest cricket nymph....

a miniature rose...

and the beautifully perfumed Garden Rose.

Tomato flower.

Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta). I was fascinated by the facial expression !

In a friend's garden Peruvian Lily (Alstroemeria).

Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius).

Potatoes in flower - Prospère (Solanum tuberosum Stemster).  I have just dug them all out, we have slightly under 50 kg to last us stored well until next year.

Courgettes.

Wild Flower - Wood Avens (Geum urbanum).

European cyclamen (Cyclamen purpurascens).

Just a sunset at the end of July.

Crab Spider (Misumena vatia).

Speckled wood (Pararge aegeria) .

Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) they change colour to confuse their prey.

As above with lunch. This particular spider I followed for many days in the Black-eyed Susans,

Here it is again.

A bee drinking from the birdbath, Western honey bee or European honey bee (Apis mellifera).

It is still around....

European Paper Wasp (Polistes dominula).

An August sunset.

Juvenile Raft Spider (Dolomedes fimbriatus) Dinner is served.

As above.

Wildflower Common Nipplewort (Lapsana communis),

Cricket nymph and fly in hiding on the rose petals!

The Raft spider returns, hungry little fellow...

Two-course meal.

Western honey bees see above.

A somewhat bedraggled Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)...

As above.