Wildlife pictures
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Yet more bug pictures from me
Here's a very dark nursery web spider Pisaura mirabilis guarding her nursery web. She's also missing a leg.
A syrphid hoverfly. I'm still working on this one, but it may well be Syrphus ribesii.
A Gatekeeper on a thistle
Roesel's Bush cricket. This one is a male. Rare but spreading in my part of the UK
A harvestman!
This one is a female Leiobunum rotundum.
A female dark bush cricket
A Meadow grasshopper
And my pride and joy, two wasp spiders, the second one with lunch (a grasshopper).
Here's a very dark nursery web spider Pisaura mirabilis guarding her nursery web. She's also missing a leg.
A syrphid hoverfly. I'm still working on this one, but it may well be Syrphus ribesii.
A Gatekeeper on a thistle
Roesel's Bush cricket. This one is a male. Rare but spreading in my part of the UK
A harvestman!
This one is a female Leiobunum rotundum.
A female dark bush cricket
A Meadow grasshopper
And my pride and joy, two wasp spiders, the second one with lunch (a grasshopper).
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A new one for me, Brown Argus. I took some quick pics for ID but I'm hoping to get some better ones. It's been a great year for butterflies so far. I planted some buddleja and lavender in the spring and they're covered with whites, commas, small tortoiseshell and peacocks every day at the moment
Wasps socialising. Not on a nest, just sat on a fencepost. I've never seen them do this before.
Garden spider. I've been after a decent picture of one of these for ages.
A rather angelic swan
A selection of flies on an umbellifer
A red admiral
A rather granular-looking slug
A common blue
And finally, another of those pictures that show how effective camouflage is. A grayling butterly.
Garden spider. I've been after a decent picture of one of these for ages.
A rather angelic swan
A selection of flies on an umbellifer
A red admiral
A rather granular-looking slug
A common blue
And finally, another of those pictures that show how effective camouflage is. A grayling butterly.
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I like that! You can see how careful and shy they are, always prepared to take off!
I've done well recently, aside from my adder pictures, so here are a few more
A hornet. Such a beautiful animal.
Sex, slug style. These are a pair of Arion ater in my garden last night
Also in my garden, a mottled slug, Limacus maculatus.
A male Dark Bush Cricket
A silver Y moth
A selection of moths that came to a moth trap at my nature reserve. Light quality was poor and my macro doesn't like low light levels.
Mother of Pearl
Gold spot moth
Dusky Thorn
A Flame Shoulder
Copper Underwing
Centre-barred Sallow
A Black Arches male
A hornet. Such a beautiful animal.
Sex, slug style. These are a pair of Arion ater in my garden last night
Also in my garden, a mottled slug, Limacus maculatus.
A male Dark Bush Cricket
A silver Y moth
A selection of moths that came to a moth trap at my nature reserve. Light quality was poor and my macro doesn't like low light levels.
Mother of Pearl
Gold spot moth
Dusky Thorn
A Flame Shoulder
Copper Underwing
Centre-barred Sallow
A Black Arches male
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Elen Sentier
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Here's a quick sequence. I was walking in long grass an saw a grasshopper leap into a web of a 4-spot spider, and stick. Grasshoppers are quite capable of kicking free of a spider web if left unmolested, so the spider attacked instantly, and I got to witness the battle.
If the spider can wrap the grasshopper in silk then the struggle is over, but the grasshopper is a powerful insect, capable of doing serious damage to the spider with kicks from its hind legs. The spider is trying to trail dense swathes of silk around the insect to immobilise it, and won't risk getting close enough to bite until then,
Here the grasshopper has kicked hard, but is still caught in the web, and the spider has managed to get some silk around it, but not enough to immobilise it.
The battle is over. The grasshopper has been wrapped with enough silk to permanently prevent its escape, so the spider is able to handle it safely. After this shot the spider wrapped the prey a little more, then carried it suspended on a silk line up and out of the prey-capture web back to the spider's retreat, where the prey was bitten and killed.
Now that's what I call a packed lunch!
If the spider can wrap the grasshopper in silk then the struggle is over, but the grasshopper is a powerful insect, capable of doing serious damage to the spider with kicks from its hind legs. The spider is trying to trail dense swathes of silk around the insect to immobilise it, and won't risk getting close enough to bite until then,
Here the grasshopper has kicked hard, but is still caught in the web, and the spider has managed to get some silk around it, but not enough to immobilise it.
The battle is over. The grasshopper has been wrapped with enough silk to permanently prevent its escape, so the spider is able to handle it safely. After this shot the spider wrapped the prey a little more, then carried it suspended on a silk line up and out of the prey-capture web back to the spider's retreat, where the prey was bitten and killed.
Now that's what I call a packed lunch!
greensurfingbear
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
this cheeky little chappy has decided the area next to our wood store is its territory now. Flies really close when ever we are out just In case we dislodge food Orric
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