Never heard of this one! Masks for handling compost? Ooer!...
Hi, LoL!Just logged on again and found this thread!Your big bumblebee is indeed a carpenter bee - Xylocopa violacea, to be precise. I've...
Hi, Woo!Just an extra thought - before you set the camera up to take piccies of animals in the snow this week! Might be worth checking the...
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Hi, Strongy!I suspect this is where some image handling programs may fall short. I have Photoshop Elements 3 (bundled with my photo scanner) and...
Haven't been around for a wee while, but I just had to wish everyone on GC a Very Happy Christmas and a peaceful, healthy, prosperous and happy...
Hi! Been here five years or more now, but had lots to do on the house, so gardening's been limited to weed control and tubs (the "garden" is about...
Eh alors! Encore un adh�©rent du Grand Sud-Ouest!!! Salut et bienvenue! (A propos, vous �ªtes o�¹ pr�©cis�©ment? Nous sommes du...
Well done, LoL - haven't managed to get a shot of one at all this year! They don't grow at all after emerging, though, so the size is more likely...
Hey, Hey!! Great news! Congratulations.... but don't spend all that new-found wonga on the garden, will you?.........save just a little for the...
More please! No risk I'll be bored, for one. Super pix, and just my sort of subject! [img] [img]
Good...good...good.... Hold that thought, miraflores! Lots of conversion and electrics to do here, as well as a new bathroom! And the engine on my...
Hi, ellie!Vapourer caterpillars are found on many food plants - notably trees and bushes. They're neither rare nor protected, but the...
I don't think it's a species of violet, Celia - this is the dog violet:http://www.plant-identification.co.uk/skye/violaceae/viola-riviniana.htm...
Hell's teeth, Pal - wherever do you start? There's some graft needed to sort all that out. We used to live in Pershore when I worked in Broadway...
I think it's Ginkgo biloba - but the experts will no doubt be along shortly!!!
HICCY BURPDAY!!!!Have a good 'un!
They sound like thrips, TO - those tiny elongated little beggars that get under the glass in your pictures and places like that. We've even got...
Most of the flying ants in a swarm are males - they take flight in pursuit of females which fly off to start new nests. The flights usually happen...
Ah - but if you can afford it, the local veal and lamb here are raised "under the mother" as they say - milk-fed and naturally reared. And...
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