I was photographing a bee on the Willow yesterday and noticed its mites. Apparently mites on Bumble Bees are not a problem, unless the bee is so heavily infested with them that they can’t take off. They’re just hitching a lift to another nest where they will feed on pollen etc. They do kind ofContinue reading “Bee Mites”
Category Archives: Insects
Dragonflies
A Dragonfly’s life begins in the water and remains there for up to five years. The part of the life-cycle that we usually see is very brief and is only a fraction of their lifetime. In order to reach they point where they appear to be the king of the airways, they must survive and growContinue reading “Dragonflies”
More Hoppers
I mentioned grasshoppers in my last post and there wasn’t just that one that I included in the post … there were loads! It made me laugh seeing them springing around everywhere as I walked through the grass near the village pond. I was trying to identify these but it seems like telling grasshopper species apartContinue reading “More Hoppers”
Meet Sally Stonefly
Welcome to my garden, Sally Stonefly! I’m not just going around giving insects names, honestly! I found this interesting insect in my garden yesterday evening and spent a long time trying to work out what it was. Eventually I discovered it was a Common Yellow Sally Stonefly (Isoperla grammatica) … Sally Stonefly for short 🙂Continue reading “Meet Sally Stonefly”
Bee-draggled
I found this bee yesterday. It’s some kind of Adrena bee (not a bumble or a honey bee). It seemed rather bee-draggled (ha ha I’m so funny) and wasn’t moving much. I was a bit worried about this poor bee, so I tried to give it some sugar-water, without much success. On the plus side,Continue reading “Bee-draggled”
On the way to somewhere
This 14-spot Ladybird seemed to be busily moving with purpose, on its way somewhere. It hard to know where it was heading but it was definitely on the way to somewhere… In response to The Daily Post’s writing prompt: “On the Way.”
Bee Memories
Here’s a lovely little bee for you from a week or two back, before the weather turned wet and blustery. Remember the bees? They swarmed in our house, which was a tad unfortunate, and then set up home in the soffits of our roof. We grew quite fond of them after a while as theyContinue reading “Bee Memories”
Big Buff-Tip
Don’t seen to have seen so many caterpillars this year, but a week or so ago, I spotted this chap on the Willow. He’s a rather large Buff-tip Moth caterpillar. I went for an unusual angle to get this shot, looking upwards at him. Seems to work quite well 🙂
Sweet Bee
I met this bee the other day in the garden, quietly bumbling about in an Evening Primrose flower. It was a cute little thing. It was about to head off to another flower and turned to look at me before it left.
Scary Shieldbug
I’ve grown quite used to spotting shieldbugs all around the place. Usually they’re the same shade of green as the leaf they’re sitting on, as they’re the common Green Shieldbugs. But at the weekend I spotted this scary fellow: He’s certainly not as camouflaged as the green ones, and seems rather more viscious – satContinue reading “Scary Shieldbug”
