Remember how many insects there were when the sun was last out???

A lot of grey and wet weather, you can tell it's the school holidays! So, here's a reminder of what it looked like when the sun was last out. I get a lot of nice insects in one of the local reserves based on old gravel pits. It's one of the best places for Ruddy Darters

Why can't all Dragons be as calm as this youngster, who let me point a big camera at him from about 6 inches away and still he never flinched. It's not as if he couldn't see me coming with those huge eyes!

A study in yellow ... or a Gatekeeper on Ragwort if you prefer

Still plenty of other Ragwort feeders around like Cinnabar caterpillars ... who apparently look like they support Wolves, I've recently learned

Painted Ladies continue to be everywhere you look but since I expect it will be a few years before it happens again, you have to fill your boots while you can, don't you?

Look at how many photobombers you get on thistles ... at least two in this shot

The second flight of Common Blues

Perhaps not surprisingly I even got a rare sighting and even rarer photo of an insectivore on the hunt. Alright, it's only a frog, but they don't normally pose for me, especially with a macro lens on the camera.

A mint moth, Pyrausta Aurata