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  1. Paul Iddon

    Night finds:

    Taken from 11pm to 11.30pm approx around the garden: Sleeping drone fly: Angleshade moth: Opilio canestrinii: Orchesella cincta: Fungus gnat (I think): Amaurobius sp. Steatoda bipunctata: Caterpillar (not checked which): Walnut Orb Weaver spider: Garden (cross) spider...
  2. Paul Iddon

    Bee on apple

    I see bees on flowers all the time - but while I knew of it, this is the first time I have seen a honey bee feeding on an apple's juices. Paul.
  3. Paul Iddon

    Love the eyes, but earwigs make me shudder...

    Despite being wonderful insects (and remarkable mothers to their young) the common garden earwig while so photogenic, make me shudder (from tales as a kid where we were told they go in your ears and eat your brains!) Paul.
  4. Paul Iddon

    Insider trading time... (in Cider, ahem...)

    The wasps are still having a field day hunting free cider from my apple windfalls :) Paul.
  5. Paul Iddon

    Pimpla rufipes

    These are incredibly skittish - always twitching, always flying away as you approach - but occasionally, they do stop and pause for whatever reason giving a chance to snap a few images. They do tend to re-visit the same part of the garden - usually around my variegated laurel. Pimpla rufipes...
  6. Paul Iddon

    When nature gets it wrong...

    This red admiral landed on a paddling pool - maybe it mistook the flower design for being a real flower! :-P Paul.
  7. Paul Iddon

    Chrysotoxum festivum

    I'm sure this is the first time I have photographed Chrysotoxum festivum - some call it the the harlequin hoverfly. Got a bonus wasp in the first image. Paul.
  8. Robert Watcher

    Macro photography of window sill succulents

    My wife Anne’s Instagram picture of her little flower grouping this morning, got me inspired to take a few macro shots of those new flowers that she noticed on her window sill succulents. Until I went out and had a look, I did not realize how small the flowers are. They are no more than 1/4...
  9. Paul Iddon

    Scouring the garden for anything...

    Not the best day for macro in the garden - weather conditions are changing, so I just looked around for anything that might be worth pointing the lens at. The results are below: First some fern spores: Then an pupa among the mosses: Then I thought I'd try and get the fungus on an apple...
  10. Paul Iddon

    Male vapourer moth (Rusty Tussock moth, Orgyia antiqua)

    Wonderful features - the males fly by day but are often also attracted to light at night. Sometimes called 'Rusty Tussocks', the male vapourer moths are a rich brown colour with two distinctive eye spots - one on each forewing. Paul.
  11. Paul Iddon

    My Mason Bee update

    So my mason bees have progressed since the last time I photographed them. Now, the nest has been covered up, and at least one bee is looking into another hole about 10 inches away. I suspect there will be larvae under the cover, and maybe the mason bee that is flying around is look for a new...
  12. Paul Iddon

    Bramble sawfly

    It flew into the kitchen and landed on the inside of the window. I know it looks like outer space, but that's the fill-in flash picking up the flaws.... Anyway, I put my fingers in front of it and managed a couple of photos before it flew away and back to the garden (bad timing on my part!)...
  13. Paul Iddon

    I am wasp, I eat...

    Carrying on with my affection for wasp macros, today on a different apple, and no doubt a different wasp, the determination to eat fruit is remarkable. The split in this apple is maybe 3mm at most... Yet the wasp has to get in there! Paul.
  14. Paul Iddon

    The 11pm shift

    Just after 11pm last night I had a look around the darkness of the garden. Nothing unusual of course, except maybe the little braconid wasp, and I only managed the focus on the ocelli rather than the near compound eye. In addition, there was a tomocerus springtail, an opilione ( which I think...
  15. Paul Iddon

    Anomoia purmunda

    Pretty as a picture (fly) (sic) Paul.
  16. Paul Iddon

    I love wasp season...

    There is something about wasps and apples that I find fascinating and when it's time for the wasps to come eat the windfalls, the photos usually lend themselves to give me a real buzz - as long as there is no sting in the tale... ;) Also got an interloper photobombing the first! Then...
  17. Robert Watcher

    A Bush Full of Insects

    We were at our daughters house this weekend. Beside the pool, a huge beautiful smelling bush (Hydrangea Heteromalla), was teaming with hundreds of bees, wasps and insects - voraciously flitting from flower to flower. In fact they were so occupied, that I was able to photograph with my camera...
  18. Paul Iddon

    Hello darkness my old friend...

    ... I've come to photo you again... :LOL: 4 from late at night in the garden just before midnight. A froghopper (or is it a leafhopper, lol)... A silver sided sector spider (Zygiella x-notata) A short legged harvestman - I first thought Rilaena triangularis, but I now think it may be...
  19. Paul Iddon

    Too hot for harvestmen

    I found an opilione on the flags in the garden - in height of the afternoon sun, and it didn't seem to like any place to put it's legs, so after one shot I relocated it to the apple tree where there was an excess of places for it to stay cool. Paul.
  20. Paul Iddon

    Aglais urticae

    Small tortoiseshell popped onto the bird table for a minute before fluttering away.. Paul.
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