What is buzzing or flying near you today??

Oh, I left one out -

 

The sun put in a few appearances today so I took advantage of it and managed to get a few pics.


Here some bees in our courgette (or pumpkin???) flowers -










I'm not sure if this was a giant wasp or a smallish hornet gathering bits of wood from our trellis -

 

Great pics KG, we have wasp things on our fence collecting wood too.

I found this little chap in our garden today, reading the care label for a plant!!

 

a back view

 

Always good to have a helper Dizi! Good pics!

 

Good pictures everyone. Your Cistus is pretty, Sis, and love your frog, D1zi!

 

Thank you KG and LoL, I don't know where he came from as nobody near has a pond as far as I know. I wondered if he came back to the pond that was in my garden 3 years ago, it was removed before I moved in though.

 

Hi, D1zi. I have found toads here ... and that's really a puzzlement although one neighbour has / used to have ducks and geese so perhaps a pond.

 

great pictures K G the close ups of the insects are so clear

 

Thanks Sis and Cuz. These pics look even better when I put them full screen Cuz, then you really can see every tiny detail. One of my few very good pics.

Dizi, frogs and toads can and do return to the pond (area) of their birth even after years. We used to have a pond where our Wintergarten now is and we still get a frog trying to jump through the window to get to the now non-exsistant pond every now and then. The strange thing is that these frogs cannot have been spawned in our old pond so perhaps they have a built-in rememberance cell inherited from their parents/grandparents?

 

Wow I bet they get a shock when they land after jumping through the window :D

 

We've had a couple of really silly ones who didn't give up after the first time - their motto "If at first you don't succeed ......"

The best one was about 2 years ago, one quite large frog kept jumping at the living room window, next to the Wintergarten window where the old pond used to be. Gato was sitting inside and was fascinated at this frog going boing! boing! against the window. I finally went out and put the frog into the pond, Gato was not happy about this, and kept running between this window and our bedroom window (both windows face the same direction).

 

What a great story I can just imagaine it!

 

I don't know if these were bees or what but they were very keen on the margarites.









This one was neither flying nor buzzing - a dragonfly shell left on a water lily leaf -

 

Lovely pictures but methink not a honey bee - but another gardeners fried, the hover fly.