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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

04/05/2021 Lockdown remains much the same.......

The maximum temperature here today 15⁰C, minimum 5⁰C. Dry though 90% rain is forecast!! Maybe tonight. (Yes, it has started 20h09). 22km/h South Westerly winds with gusts up to 56 km/h. Rain forecast for most of this week and the temperatures rise again a little. The garden I hope will be happy!

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Spanish Bluebells.

Buttercups (Ranunculus bulbosus).

Camillia (Camellia Japonica).

Geranium.

Spanish Iris (Iris xiphium).

Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera Buckleyi) with its dates a bit mixed up!

Cymbidium Orchid.

Thirsty Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

As above.

Fire bug. (Pyrrhocoris apterus) better known as the Gendarme beetle. I always think they look like African masks!

Eristalis similis (Glass-winged Dronefly) a member of the Hoverfly family...

I was fascinated watching it as it appeared to be stretching and cleaning each part of its body. A video would have been good but I could not send it anywhere as it would have taken a week to download it on this WiFi speed...

As above.

The caterpillar of the Jersey Tiger Moth (Euplagia quadripunctaria).

I wonder now what the time is 🕤😊

Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

My local list of wildflowers. (90 Species 23/08/2020).

Thursday, August 27, 2020

27/08/2020 Out and about, insects and skies.

Maximum temperature here today 27⁰C, minimum 13⁰C. Dry, but rain forecast. 17km/h North-Westerly winds with gusts up to 39 km/h.

Sorry that I am not keeping up with blogs or comments, but we have had continuous slow WiFi, at times being only 0.1 (sigh). The garden is also being very demanding, especially with two fig trees loaded with fruit and the dehydrator being on the blink. I am spending many hours in the kitchen bottling.

Sunflowers.

Interesting clouds, do you see the teddy bear face?

Genus Calliptamusa member of Short-horned Grasshoppers Family Acrididae...

as above.

House sparrow (Passer domesticus) - I just liked this shot!

Comma butterfly (Polygonia c-album)...

As above...

See the white comma and why it is named as such.

Orchids in the house. Cymbidium.

Lesser Purple Emperor (Apatura ilia). Think this is the female, the male (of course) is the pretty purple one!! She is still pretty good looking though!

As above...

As above.

The setting sun after a stormy day. 16/08/2020

Florentine Woolcarder (Anthidium florentinum)...

As above.

Bumblebee.

As above.

Peacock butterfly (Aglais io)...

As above.

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta).

Common social wasp (V. vulgaris).

Yellow‐legged hornet, (Vespa velutina) - another bee killer that appears to be rapidly spreading in France!! First identified here in 2004 😡

The first rose for some time appeared especially for my birthday 19/08 ....

We met up with friends and had a 'distancing' picnic at a friends house with a very large garden, and a very pretty farm wagon. Despite the fact that we had not seen each other since February, and we had all been in lock-down, there seemed to be a lot to talk about. Thirty-nine years anniversary tomorrow!

My local list of wildflowers. (90 Species 23/08/2020).