What is buzzing or flying near you today??

WOW...THATS BRILLIANT

 

Nice one! Painted Lady - a summer migrant

 

Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris). Excellent pictures! A good book is Michael Chinery's "Complete British Insects" published by Collins at �£16.99, but less from Amazon. Contains photographs of over 1,500 insects. :D

 

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)


Two Blues in love (Polyommatus icarus)

 

Really good and close up - love the red damsel!

 

Marbled White (not to be confused with the Cabbage White!) :D

 

Thanks for the Wildlife Corner, Nathan :D

This is a Burnet Moth, but I'm not sure if it is the Six Spot Burnet or the Five Spot Burnet. It is on Greater Knapweed. Like the Cinnabar moths, they are day flying and poisonous to birds. They don't need to hide themselves by looking like leaves or tree bark, but advertise their presence with strong colours to warn birds that they are not good to eat.

 

Well I have no pics but... in our garden mostly we have ladybirds, hoverflies, honeybees, bumblebees, loads of sparrows who this year are nesting in the roof somewhere, 4 fat pigeons and tons of swifts who nested in our eaves last year but not this, but they fly around and entertain me in the morning and evening, I saw a couple of bats not long ago too

 

Watching garden wild life is a real bonus isn't it :D We have bats and I love to watch them in the evening. Haven't seen any sparrows for ages. Swifts are really special birds - so agile in flight yet they can barely crawl on the ground and can't take off again. That's why they nest in your eaves. Once they leave the nest, they eat, drink, sleep and make love on the wing :D

 

Does my lightning bug count?