The maximum temperature here today 25⁰C, minimum 11⁰C. Lots more rain over the past week - 636mm to date this year; 120 more than last year at the same time. Wind 10km/h North Westerly winds with gusts up to 23 km/h. More rain forecast for Saturday and Sunday!!
Lots of very tiny bugs follow. Nigel has bought me a MEIKE MK-N-AF1-A Macro Electronic Mount Auto Focus Macro tube extension. So I have been playing with it!!! Photos are not perfect, I need lots of practice.
I think this is (Sphaerophoria scripta), the long hoverfly.
Again I am not sure, but I think this is a member of the Wolf Spiders Family Lycosidae plus egg.
This little fellow with the huge captured meal was all of 2mm in size. So small I would not have seen it if it had not been for the prey. (Nigma puella)...
As above.
This one refused to let me take a shot head-on, every time I moved it turned away from me!
Cricket-bat Orbweaver (Mangora acalypha)....
As above.
Harvestman. It is one of the Opilones, a group of arachnids closely related to spiders. Unlike the spiders, it has no silk glands so is not able to spin a web...
As above, I guess its mother loves it!...
As above.
Green aphids or better known as Greenfly.
This slightly larger edition I suspect might be a cypress aphid.
Fire bug (Pyrrhocoris apterus) better know as the Gendarme beetle.
Marmalade Hoverfly - (Episyrphus balteatus).
Oedemera noblis male, the female does not have the muscular legs...
As above giving some idea of how small it is and the carpet beetle to its right.
Varied Carpet Beetle (Anthrenus verbasci). The two photos above were taken with the TAMRON Megazoom - 18-400 mm as are the two below,
Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui)...
As above.
Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.
My local list of wildflowers. (91 Species 20/06/2021).
See also my
