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Thursday, July 1, 2021

01/07/2021 Trying to find the very little guys hiding in the garden.

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).

Monday, May 24, 2021

24/05/2021 A few bugs around the garden.

The maximum temperature here today 16⁰C, minimum 9⁰C. It just keeps raining!!!! Over 100mm in the last fortnight. Very windy with 31km/h North Westerly winds with gusts up to 74 km/h. More rain forecast.

A slightly bedraggled speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria).

Rosemary beetle (Chrysolina Americana) pretty but sadly a pest.

A Dock Bug (Coreus marginatus)...

As above.

The caterpillar of The Lackey moth (Malacosoma neustria)...

then along came a spider....

and sat down beside her.

Black and red froghopper (Cercopis vulnerata).

As above.

The western honey bee (Apis mellifera).

European paper wasp (Polistes dominula)...

As above.

The Dun-bar moth (Cosmia trapezina) larvae...

It was on a sprig of rosemary that I brought in from the garden, which I only discovered when I put the sprig under the tap to wash it. Lucky fellow, he got put outside to have a second life

As above.

Peony, the only genus in the family (Paeoniaceae).

Wet, wet, wet, Rhododendron, Iris, Grape leaf and peony.

24/05/2021The potatoes are doing well, waiting for the continual rain to ease off so I can plant everything else! This was a dry spell at 8pm! I sort of managed to cut the grass yesterday afternoon, but it was so wet underneath that it did not pick up at all - cut grass all over.

Returning to May 8 the local mayor had a small ceremony for Victory in Europe day.

I am glad we went as there was only about 20 of us, all masked of course. This photo was when the young lady was reading all the names off of the memorial. After each name is read everyone says "Décédé pour la France" (died for France). They will never be forgotten.

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Take care everybody, keep well and stay safe.

My local list of wildflowers. (90 Species 23/04/2021).