What is buzzing or flying near you today??

Fascinating stuff Strongy I know zero about them other than they like my doorstep and sometimes stick on the outside of the windows :D We get these tiny green ones too - are these babies or another type??????
I knew he was a Cornish one though - he'd left his pasty on the other step!!!!! :D :D :D

 

Windy, this is the other main one, the spiny, which is found up as far as Devon, a wicked looking thing
even at only 4ins max!

 

Ooh!!! :eek: No I've never seen one of those!!!! Wish I had though! This is fascinating stuff Strongy Where do they live??? I've only ever seen them on the house sunbathing....

 

They can be found on bramble, rasberry, Pittosporum, Fuchsias and some conifers e.g Thuja and Chamaecyparis, the unarmed SI that You have likes roses, brambles, Hypericum, Vallerian and Dahlias but probably eats other plants as well. They are so well camouflaged and move so slow that you may find it hard to see them unless like yours it was away from it's natural habitat. Be careful when you are pruning!! :D

 

A butterfly in January! This red admiral was sunning itself in my front garden today. Obviously, it is out of hibernation, but how will it fare in tomorrow's gales?

 

Looks like we are all in for a cold spell from sunday so it had better find somewhere to keep warm! :(

 

May I add some of my buzzing/flying creatures (from last summer)? Some pics. aren't too clear - but hope give an idea of what's going on!

This bullfinch came to feast on the wealth of herb-robert seeds in our garden:



We thought he'd brought his wife - until saw this on our shed:




This wee spider caught my eye making it's web in a bearded iris bloom!



And, another garden one - this time, a froglet ventures out into the world beyond the pond:

 

JarBax,brilliant photos of the wildlife well done

 

Oops - another garden one I missed...

This wasps nest was in our shed!

 

(Yikes - hadn't realised th red admiral on this page was about just days ago! Hope it found somewhere to shelter!)

Should really have said in my first post how thrilled I was looking through this thread! Some of the wildlife is amazing - and the photography is brilliant! I love taking pics. of the wildlife in and around our garden - and beyond - it is fabulous to have found others who share this passion! :D

We often travel South to Herefordshire (where we lived for a couple of years) in the summer holidays. There, we visit the fantastic Hampton Court Gardens. Here are a couple of shots from our time there last summer:

Does anyone know what this caterpillar might become? (It was on an apple tree - and just beginning to spin it's cocoon!)


The underwing of a comma butterfly - showing the comma!



And lastly, two banded damoiselle, entwined by the side of the River Teme in Ludlow, Shropshire.



The first time I ever saw these beautiful creatures, I thought they were fairies! I saw a couple of pics. of them earlier on in this thread - and as the photographer said, their colours are just incredible - the photos really don't do them justice! For this picture, I was standing, thigh deep in a river!

 

brill pics JB

 

Wow what super pics. Loved the macro stuff JB and those swans, particularly the first one are stunning GW

 

Great pix, JB. Welcome to the wild life snappers