Not sure if we have a new thread for this year...if we have please give me the link...if not then I will kick it off
Link to last year's
https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/282101/all-about-insects-2023?pifragment-4285=1
Tasty feast!
Hoverfly thingy...well a canny mind away back to last year lol
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
Strikingly captured flower Snappy, no idea what it is though! And fab stripy buzzy things too
Day off, so naturally pretty iffy weather. Snapped a few ickle things in the garden
The last flower looks like Astrantia major (greater masterwort) to me.
Thanks tuwit
Amazing how that top one changes into a Ladybird
I didn't know what it was Snappy.. so wow.. yes!! Ta
Quite amazing to capture a couple and watch them morph into adults, the spots only appear as they're drying out!
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Ah! But which species?
7 spot?
Or two-spot?
I don't think harlequin, or any of the less widespread UK species.
Happy to be corrected.
I'm currently more interested in the small (?) fly making an appearance on the green leaves under the hoverfly photo. The one wirth the black spot on its wing and with the pale coloured eye.
Any idea?