Starting new thread with this tiny speedy critter (best viewed full screen) in real time, what moves this fast?
Be two snails racing up the wall next! Lol
Link back to 2019 thread ... https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/200031/all-about-insects-2019/1278648#1278648
2013 photos & vids here
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A few unknown (to me) buzzy, stripy, hovvery things, from this mornings walk (unfortunately I only had my big lens on me so I was having to stand about 7 feet away. Blades of grass are not a long lens photographers friend!!)
PimperneBloke said:
Using the quoted pics above; the first two pics, are a horntail while the third you probably already know, a hoverfly
All good photos PB
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
You certainly did well to catch hoverflies in flight with the telephoto, PB and a good selection of others as well.
Unfortunately, I have to disagree with Mike's ID. That's not a horntail (a type of sawfly), but one of the Nomad Bees. I spotted one in spring last year and then never saw another, so a good spot as far as I'm concerned but maybe you have more of them down there.
Meanwhile, I got this "chaos of legs" the other day
Two Craneflies landed in front of me and started to mate, and then two others tried to join in! Then it was down to three
Finally, just the two locked together.
With all those legs they are more difficult than spiders to try and get in focus!
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Nige Flickr
Nige, I'm happy to be corrected and lovely clear photos of the crane flies mating. I've not seen many crne flies for a good many years. At one time they used to be quite commonplace, aprticularly autumn time when they'd come into the home to keep warm....
I'm thinking Honey Bee for this one from the garden today.
My bird photos HERE
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Nature is amazing all the time, especially when you think of the weight ants carry in relation to their own body weight, and dimensions!
So, if you saw the "Flying Panda" thread, you'll know I wanted to get better photos of the Nomad bee that is a specialist cuckoo bee for the Ashy Mining Bee. This an Ashy Mining Bee in the heather
And this is the cuckoo bee, Nomada Lathburiana checking out a mining bee nest hole
The mining bee 'colony' is a big so there were several of these Nomad bees
They're quite dainty little things but not easy to catch at rest
Mission accomplished!
Definitely mission accomplished, they're superb photos Nige