Showing posts with label Hoverfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hoverfly. Show all posts

Thursday, March 27, 2025

More Garden Arrivals

The midday sunshine brought out a few more flies, bees etc in the garden.

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Striped Insects on the Ivy

 The Hoverflies, Other flies, Wasps and even Moths were enjoying the nectar on the Ivy flowers today, and several spiders have already reduced the hundreds of Ivy bees that are out foraging in the garden amd village



Friday, August 30, 2024

30th August Toft Garden

Here are some of the species I was able to identify while starting to cut my  'meadow' area  - the root areas are particularly full of insects and spiders. There are many many more still to record  though not sure how many will be large enough to photograph and ID. some extras at the end from the Tansy etc




Sunday, August 4, 2024

More Tales from the Garden

We had both of  the large hoverfly Hornet mimics in the garden yesterday (Volucella inanis and zonaria ) - here V. zonaria caught in flight at 1/10,000 second a Green-veined White at 1/4000. The bee was probably too large and dangerous a prey for the flower spider! The Ruddy Darter is a new species for the pond and good to record two different Harvestmen under the same log pile. Finally a couple of very attractively marked green bugs (Hemiptera)

Monday, July 29, 2024

Paxton East Redlands

The long grass edges to the paths on East Redlands were very productive with lots of Banded Demoiselles, Darters and  Damsel flies; one of the Common Blue Damselflies had been caught by the first Wasp Spider I have spotted this year. At last, with the warmer temperatures there were lots Butterflies - Brown Argus, Common Blue  and Essex Skippers, plus a very active Bumble Bee mimicking Hoverfly.