Showing posts with label banded snail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banded snail. Show all posts

Friday, May 8, 2020

08/05/2020 Flowers and Insects

Maximum temperature here today 23⁰C, minimum 15⁰C.  Some rain during the day not measured as yet.   14km/h South-Easterly wind with gusts up to 37 km/h. 

Sorry, far more photos than usual but I have at last caught up with April,  I can now move on to May !!

White Lilac out walking.

Violet Lilac also out walking.

Choisya ternata at home.

Wisteria out walking.

Irises at home.

Azalea - home.

Californian poppies - home.

Peony - home.

Iris-home.

Azalea -home

Mirabelle plums - home.

Cherries - home (they are now ripening but with all the rain most are split) 😞

All the following bugs are in the garden.
(Oxythyrea funesta) - chafer beetle.

(Trichodes alvearius) Family Cleridae.

As above.

Crane-fly.

Red Cabbage bug (Eurydema ornata).

Moth unknown

Caterpillar - Garden Tiger Moth (Artica caja).

Froghopper (Cercopis vulnerata).

Caterpillar of the Lackey moth (Malacosoma neustria).

As above.

Eight spotted Ladybird.

Banded Snail.

I have made an extra page on the wildflowers seen at home, or very close by, which if you are interested in, you can see the link at the top of the page under the main heading, on the green line. I am adding to it all the time.

See also my


Thursday, March 29, 2018

29/03/2018 We actually saw some sun this morning but the rain returned this afternoon.

Maximum temperature today 12C, minimum 3C.   10 mm of rain measured this morning; 9 km/h North Westerly winds with up to 44 km/h gusts. 
Rain this afternoon and forecast for the rest of the week - again!!
Total so far this year now 392 mm.
Banded snail.

Bee.

Dandelion and bee.

Blackbird (Turdus merula) and House sparrows (Passer domesticus).

Bee.

Buttercup.

Camellia.

Eurasian collared dove (Streptopelia decaocto), wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) and House sparrows.

Our neighbours lambs...

As above...

At the milk bar...

Maybe twins.

Le Gendarme beetle (Pyrrhocoris apterus).

Hyacinth.

Tulips.

Unknown on a lawn daisy.

Carrots, parsnips and two different kinds of topinambour (Jerusalme artichoke) from the garden.
Topinambour and carrot soup on the menu over the weekend.


N.B. My new bird blog is HERE 

Saturday, August 5, 2017

05/08/2017 Yes, I am in the garden again!!!

Maximum temperature 23C, minimum 16C.   9 km/h NW winds with 21 km/h gusts.  Dry.
The bud from a couple of days back is fully open but....

another bud is on its way.

Banded snail on the sage...

and a Harvestman.

Coma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album)

As above.

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria)

The Crab spider has moved to a new flower , right next to where it was before.

Zinnia flower with fly and bee.

Pumpkin flower with bumble bee and bug.

Pumpkin flower with bumble bee and bee.

Petunia and bug.

Wood pigeon. (Columba palumbus).