After what seems like endless rain it turned out dry today, and fairly bright. Perfect weather for photographing bugs and butterflies. Well, not perfect… the wind was strong which makes leaves and branches sway in and out of focus, so well over half the shots I took were discarded. A selection of the rest have found their way into the Bugs and Butterflies album.
I've tried my best to identify the little creatures, and I think most of them are correct, but I'm happy to be told otherwise. Here's a few of the bugs.
Ladybird (even I know this one without checking)
A short winged conehead, apparently
Common red solider beetles mating
Common Green Grasshopper. You can hear them everywhere, but I had a job actually finding one to photograph
I also spotted a Small Skipper butterfly, a Comma, and a Common Darter.
The fox cub is still keen as mustard, and now appears in the garden on a nightly basis, more often than not on his own. Here's a portrait from this evening of Ardent the fox cub (yes he has a name, and yes I'm fairly certain he is a 'he').
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Which species of ladybird? 😉 And I agree about grasshoppers.
Gorgeous photo of Ardent, and what a great name for him!
Ok I was being lazy. The ladybird is a 7-spot ladybird, otherwise known as a Coccinella 7-punctata.
Ardent writes:
He's absolutely Gorgeous…
..and I am honored
🙂
Beautiful pics and I mean all of them
I didn`t know there are differencies between ladybirds… How many spots have the other(s)?
Gdare, I'm not sure how many different types there are, but quite a few. Some common ones are on this fact sheet. Spots range from 2 to 22, and colours vary as well.
Wow!