What is buzzing or flying near you today??

<shudders> i can't say i blame Mrs Walnut!! i'm not very good with them either, nice pics though :D

 

Thanks Ruby and Woo.

Wonderful shots, Walnut! :thumb: I'm always pleased when I find such a beauty here and have managed to get a few decent pics of them too.

I especially love the pic of the Spider in the Spider Plant - great idea! :D

 

A female Brimstone butterfly (Gonepteryx rhamni) -

 

Thanks Bob. I'm not sure if I ever saw one before either. I found it just around the corner from my cousins house a few days ago, in Bedfordshire.


Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album) - ID by bobj

 

I've seen one of those before when I was working in a woodland removing pole sycamore's, it flew up and clung to my fleece for about 45min and then just gently fluttered away

Edit: just read a little of that website that bobj mentioned and it fits pretty well with what I saw as I was working in a elm wood...

 

Thanks Bob, that is a good site and I've added it to my Favourites.

As said in the site, nettles are a favourite foodplant, and there were lots of them around where I found this Comma, although it was sitting on some other leaf.l

 

Any idea what this insect is!...There were quite a few around this Fushia

 

I wonder if it could be a Horsefly? :cnfs:

 

I know it looks so in the pic but they had red 'bodies'...not as dark as in the pic.

 

Clever Butterflies, love the camoflage on them....... the first one looks like a leaf....... Good shots :thumb:

 

I was going by the striped body. The only other one that looks rather like it is the Dance Fly, Empis tessellata. But a red body?

Have a look here Paladin - http://www.plantpress.com/wildlife/o379-dancefly.php

 

Yes Kedi it's the dance fly.

 

I'm very proud of myself, walnut, being able to ID something!


I found this garden spider a couple of weeks ago but have only now got around to uploading it.

 

Out walking this afternoon, i was photographing something else when i spotted a Buzzard, they're a bit grainy but i was a good 250 yards away :(

 

Well caught Ruby.
I caught these Longtails just now, they visit occasionally but only stay for a minute or two so getting a pic through the window 'was snap and hope'.




There are three here but not showing themseves clearly.