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)
Excellent shots Sal. Can't really help with the Cricket id, it does look like the photos of Roesels Bush Crickets on the internet. My book of bugs always seems to have everything, except what I am looking for ...
Forest Bug or a red leggy shield bug obviously lost as it was in Sparrowhawk Hide!
The joy of it being on the window...you can get back and front
Crane fly is my most loathed insect when they come into house attracted by the lights then bumble around aimlessly ... flying spiders Yeuk!! One of the reasons I have insect screens on doors and a couple of windows!
Nevertheless, I am glad to see them emerge to provide food for others, as do their young, leatherjackets, in the grass! Love to see the Blackbirds digging for them!
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Nice macro's Linda, good idea
They seem to be everywhere here the now Wendy...I returned one back outside last night that got in my kitchen...!
Thanks SM...don't be stealing my idea now
They usually come out in droves here as soon as we've had a decent amount of rain, was setting up a picnic one year when in my teens and they were hatching out in their thousands, the grass was heaving with them ... it was a very nasty moment for me, my fiancee had to carry me back to the car!!
Oh Jeez!!! Well the heavens have opened here yet again accompanied by thunder and lightning so perhaps tomorrow a will be over run with them flying beasties
Bats. I've been watching bats for periods of 3 evenings. Trying to count bats is worse than trying to count birds (IMO). At least you can get a relatively good photo of multiple flying things in daylight hours and count.