What is buzzing or flying near you today??

Strongy,

Spiders come out of corners when they're ready for mating I am staying well away, overactive immagination and all that :eek:

 

Why have you got eight legs then? :D

 

I used to but someone removed all but two :D :D

 

Come into my parlour said the spider to the daddylonglegs.........He looks very well fed to me, little fat buddy. :D
Such is nature.

 

Roders,

Dat is one for 'weight watchers' i feel :D

My son says that Crane Flies are poisonous, is it true or is he pulling my leg (excuse the pun) :D

 

Not true Paula only a myth a lot are eaten by birds with no problems, the leatherjacket larva are feasted on by starlings, your not planning to eat some are you :eek:

 

wow !!! I have really enjoyed looking throught his enormous thread - what fantastic pictures you all take I have also enjoyed seeing some critters that obviously dont visit Spanish shores !

 

Heres some of a praying mantis that hangs around my garden lights at night - but frightens the heck outta me when I was clearing up garden rubbish

 

Perhaps one day CL it will be warm enough for them to visit the UK instead of having to go abroad to see them.

 

Love them, t'other Lady. I'm happy to have them here, along with my geckos and lizards and spiders and mice ... but no so keen on the rats. :eek:

strongy, t'other half wants to know if you are an Elephant Hawkmoth Caterpillar ... the thing I had up for ID but don't think you responded to. I say no because "ours" didn't have legs.

 

Gosh, nobody's visited here for a while!

All summer I got just one Scarce Swallowtail, missed the Clouded Yellows which are so vibrant, but this morning I managed to catch a couple of flutterbys ... I finally captured a Monarch (I believe as it's not in my Med book) and a Large White (Pieris brassicae) I think ... both were in one photo I took but it came out blurry. :(

 

charming creatures the praying mantis ...

 

Love the butterflies LoL , the third pic is fab.

The praying mantis is great also CactusLady,saw my first wild one in Cyprus this summer, wonderful piece of natural engineering.

 

Lovely pics. LoL.
Beautiful colours
That Ponsettia is amazing.

 

Thanks pip and roders.

Took me a while and about 20 photos to get these ... but guess that's what it's all about.

I thought they would be all over the Lantana next door but no ... the Poinsettia seems to be "the" place to be at the moment.

I'm really chuffed with these as I'm not good on this type of photography.

PS I'm not even using all my new camera attachments as it's all a bit daunting to me. :eek: