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....
As above.
As above.
Gatekeeper butterfly (Pyronia tithonus).
Common swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machon)....
As above.
Small white butterfly (Pieris rapae).
Thirsty bees taking a drink.
Bumble bee (Bombus....)
Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria).
Genus Lithobiusa member of Stone Centipedes Order Lithobiomorpha
Latticed Heath Moth (Chiasmia clathrate).
As above
Common Wall Lizard (Podarcis Muralis).
A poppy seed head,
Pumpkin flower pollinators.
