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)
Amazing, wonder if a bee-keeper will come along to set them up in a hive?
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
It's funny, I was with someone who keeps bees. These were high up in a tree.
Were the bees gathered around a natural hole in the tree big enough to make a nest?
Super set Snappy. I'm struggling with your damsel, only one with slight resemblance colour-wise in my book is the Irish Damsel, but unless they've moved Sandy it's unlikely lol. Did you get any other shots, from above maybe to see the markings?
Edit: And your ants diet isn't helping with the butterflies lol
Difficult to see, may have been a hole at the top of the swarm.
Thanks PB, only got that side shot, then it departed...
I think the caterpillar may be a saw fly, using google.
Hangry ants? :)
SnappyMac said:The hungry ants, both were pulling their prey along:
The strength and determination of ants is incredible.
Bees and wasps enjoying the sap of a tree is quite a common scenario. The sap will hold a lot of natural sugars, something I came across for the first time at Trengwainton Gardens, (NT), Cornwall.
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Just a few insects from me from the local woods. Been busy gardening, washing and editing since I got back.
Aphids seem attracted to my young apple tree. The backs of loads of leaves were infested!
Longhorn Moth
Scorpion Fly - these seem quite common at the moment
Golden Coloured Fly (Taken from the PB book of insect identification ... )
Not sure about this one. I thought Common Greenbottle, but there are no cross grooves on the thorax. It might be a Dolichopus Popularis
according to Google.
Sorry BD, but I think that's the much commoner Golden Coloured Twinspot Fly