What is buzzing or flying near you today??

Was it flying or buzzing? :D

 

No, it was quietly crawling along the ground. Okay, so it doesn't count!

 

Good looking guy - or is it a gal?
Six-spot Burnet moth

 

The Comma butterfly is one of my favourites. It hibernates in winter and is often one of the first to visit my garden in the spring. Stinging nettles are the food plant of the caterpillars


The Ringlet butterfly loves thistles and brambles. Its caterpillar eats various grasses.

 

great pics but i am frightened of bees, wasps etc, iff i see a wasp i run a mile, when my son was a baby in his pram could not get rid of a wasp i ended up running off leaving my grandmother holding the baby, it was in the middle of the town centre made an absolute spectacle of my self, those where the days.
had to get used to the bees with my flowers iff they leave me alone i am fine. got the fly swat handy.
from rosa

 

Hi rosa, my late father was just like that, he claimed that when he was a boy a bee crawled into his ear and stung him, which knocked him out!

Perhaps you had a bad experience like that at sometime?

 

I don't mind bees so much, but whilst gardening I swear the bar-stood wasps chase me.

 

Without wasps, there would be a lot more cabbage white caterpillars munching your brassicas. I once saw a wasp swoop on a cabbage white in mid flight. It stung it, neatly bit off its wings and then flew off to the nest with the alive, but paralised body. Slowly, the discarded wings fluttered to the ground.

Wasps hunt meat in the spring and early summer when the nest is raising the young'uns. In later summer, that duty is done and then it's party time for the wasps and they feed themselves on sweet stuff like your jam scones. Come the winter, they all die but the queen.

Best way to overcome a fear of insects is to get to know them better. Unless you have an allergy, a wasp sting is no worse than a nettle sting. I have been stung twice and both times were in city streets when eating ice cream :D

 

yes i got stung by a bee when i was about 8 years old but this phobia did not start until my early 20s had it for 30 years oh giving my age away.
I know this is awful had a bee in my lounge and i had to kill it as its not like you can pick them up and throw them out side it took me an hour to go back in the lounge before i decided to do this dreadful deed. I have been looking for a fly catcher to no avail in case this happens again.
Please dont think i am awful for what i did but iff i hadnt i would not of gone back in my lounge and i was on my own. Iff any members know where to get one of them fly catchers it wouls solve my problem for the future. from rosa

 

I agree - they are ethereal. Well done for getting that shot so well

 

Had another hummingbird hawk moth today but didn't stay long, hovered round some lobelia and was gone, but what a sight!

 

Great weather for butterflies and some day flying moths :D

Small Emerald Moth - sexy legs




Small Skipper butterfly.


There is also a rare Essex Skipper with black tips to the antenna.


Ringlet butterfly (the rings are on the underside of the wings - see earlier photograph)