What is buzzing or flying near you today??

Crane Fly




Various Garden Spiders











The last one looks like it has lost a leg.

ID's please -

- Is the first one some kind of flying daddy-long-legs?

- The ones in the garden are the Garden Spiders but what are the ones against the black wood?


ID's by walnut

[ 06. September 2007, 07:10 PM: Message edited by: Kedi-Gato ]

 

Wonderful pics, kryssy and Sis. I may have to think of investing in a new camera or close-up lens ... I just cannot get the flying critters. Have been after two for weeks for ID purposes, have probably taken 50 plus photos, but they flutter so fast all I get is blur ... even t'other half can't capture them.

 

Do we have to have a plethora of foreign bugs and spiders just as I am about to sit down to 2 different cheeses mixed with horse radish and cream cheese then rolled in chopped walnuts and chilled, washed down with a bottle of white Rioja. Or was that a pint of bitter and a packet of salt and vinegar crisps. Oh, ask LoL. She'll know. :confused:

 

Kryssy, let's just ignore him, he'll be back after he has finished eating.

John, perhaps you should look in the recipe or flower threads when you are eating?

Hope you enjoyed your meal in spite of our wonderful pics

 

Got some photos of the Painted Ladies. They have such beautiful shading on the underside of the body and not just the underside of the wings.







This lovely coloured bumble bee decided to join the party on the Verbena.

 

First one Keddi is a daddy long legs (Crane fly) in itself its harmless but its larvae leather jackets do a lot of damage to lawns feeding on grass roots.
The one on the dark wood is a garden spider the white cross on itsback is a give away.
John (chopped walnuts :eek: )
Great pictures Geoff one of the migrants I don't mind.

 

Yes, lovely pictures Kedi-Gato and Geoff. I particularly like your 3rd one Geoff, the way the light shows through those lovely wings. Did you find the butterflies were so preoccupied with feeding that they let you get really close? Usually they're off before I can get anywhere near.

I don't mind the spiders so nerr to Sarraceniac and his food fetish :D :D

 

Wonderful pics geoff.

Thanks walnut, have edited them in again. I just hope that I remember some of them and not keep asking the same thing five times!


I only have a Shield Bug to offer today -




- and lots of bees in the blooming Aralia Elata, hard to see them though -

 

Hi everyone,

Was sitting quietly minding my own business recuperating an in flies a bloomin great big hornet, an inch long it was. Being unable to move around at the moment i had to wait til hubby came home (harry - i had named the hornet after watching it for over an hour - decided he had no inclination to fly back out the window).

This lead to his unplanned an untimely demise via rapid spray.

Why are we getting these bloomin great things?

 

Yes Krsyssy the 3rd one is my favourite as well. They did not seem too fussed about me and in fact i did try taking one photo using the macro setting which means getting very close and the butterfly did not bother. It is such that I have to be careful walking past because they have taken to sunning themselves on the patio as in the first picture. That spot by the steps is a favourite with the bees as well. I read somewhere that bumble bees do not have a barbed sting like honey bees so they could sting and live to fight another day. Yet they are so tolerant. I annoyed one by taking macro photos and it headbutted the lens, which is a warning, rather than attempting to sting. I think bumble bees have to be my favourite insect.
Last night at the beekeepers meeting I got my first sting, tip of the finger right through the glove. I was moving the frames and put my finger right on the bee. Now we know I won't collapse foaming at the mouth so i can continue. I was surprised - it was only like a pin prick and the pain went quickly. Perhaps it was because i flicked out the sting straight away. It is just a pity that the honey bee dies when it does it. The colony did get a little annoyed and there was quite a loud hum at times but they just fly around rather than attempting to sting.

 

Is this an Albino Swallow?
Lots of swallows come to sit on one of my radio antennas. I spotted this one sitting with the others. Is it an albino or has it simply not developed adult plumage? It appeared the same size as the others in the flock.

 

Its strange Dave, I've not seen one like that before, but then I'm no expert, I haven't seen a swallow around here for weeks now, I thought they had all left the country.


I did just about catch this today, but couldn't get very close.

Can you tell what it is yet. :D

 

Brilliant Pete!!!
You need to be quick with the shutter to catch a kingfisher in flight. Well done.

 

I can only agree! Really brilliant!