What is buzzing or flying near you today??

Thanks Rosa and Lyn,I can't stop looking at it as I am so chuffed in managing to get the shots.Even Mr Kandy was impressed with it

 

kandy dont blame you, its so hard to get birds, very impressive, you did well

 

Great shot Kandy.

Dont you just love it when everything comes together.
It's just now and again when a great shot comes along.....right place, right time, right camera, right weather.....and of course right skill
Well done.

 

Thanks Roders now I feel all :D

 

No pics but just seen first House Martins and Swallows , by the end of the week they might wish they hadn't come here if the weather forecast is anything to go by! :(

 

I saw these colourful insects in the Austrian Alps this past week. The bigger and fatter one was dragging the smaller one off across the road and down into a hole on the verge.


Red Milkweed Beetle (tetraopes tetraophthalmus)

(thanks to walnut for the ID)










Can anyone ID them, please?

[ 17. March 2008, 08:18 AM: Message edited by: Kedi-Gato ]

 

Interesting Kedi, incredible patterns, mating? I think they maybe a Bark Beetle or something similar.

 

Kedi your beetle is indeed the Red Milkweed Beetle - Tetraopes tetraophthalmus.

 

Thanks strongy, Marley and (again) walnut!

 

I have no photos of it!
but i was out at the park with my father, and we seen a HUGE BUMBLEBEE! was so cute to

 

Hi all

I love the info & pics on here. Well done all.

Tay, funnily enough i was talking to a bee-keeper yesterday. No i don't live in the country, don't ask me how i find these people, i just do :D

He was saying that actually his bees are doing quite well & i said i hadn't seen any this year yet. He also said that they suffer a lot more problems than they did 20 years ago. I didn't realise they had internal organs like kidneys (I think that's what he said - to be honest i got lost half way through the conversation!). We've seen a couple of huge ones here before. They do look lovely but not too close :D

 

Beautiful shot, Marley, lovely colours ... I've not seen one before.

I don't know if anyone knows what this critter is ... I've been trying to photograph one for over a year! It is green/blue/black metallic in colour, about 5cms long / 4cms wide (I couldn't measure and photograph at the same time :rolleyes: ) and bores into wood ... perhaps it should be in the Pest section ...

 

Lovely photos Marley the middle one of the peacock butterfly is a show stopper!

Yoiks LOL!

Not sure at all what that fella is. I remember I was visiting my uncle in Majorca when I was 18 and found a similar type (dead)mothy thing, although not as big as your fella! I stuck it in a photo film case and into a kodak box and for some reason put an elastic band around it to prevent the lid coming off etc.

Guess what...got pulled up at Customs. Officer thought he had me nailed when he saw this suspicious package...drugs for sure....!!!!

Actually he nearly fell over when he saw it was a monster moth and ushered me out quickly - but didn't confiscate the thing???!!!!