Grasshoppers and Crickets in Crete

Crete has a wonderful range of Grasshoppers and Crickets - here are just a few with tentative IDs.

Bluebells and Yellow Fields

Waresley wood was very busy this morning for our CCC Wednesday Workshop outing and, once we got parked and in the woods, we could see why:- the Bluebells are extra good this year. Fewer Oxlips, wood anemones or orchids but the smell and sight of the Bluebells made up for this. The blue of the flowers is so dependent on the light conditions - cyan out of the sun and almost purple in the sun. Not so keen on the smell of the Rape which is turning lots of fields yellow.

 

Beetles in Crete

Continuing through the insects etc photographed in Crete in mid-April, here are some Beetles, including a pair of Tiger beetles, a difficult species to find and photograph in the UK but present in their hundreds on one of the stony hillsides that we visited.

Garden Safari April 30th

First Large Red Damselfly yesterday - latest date I have recorded (compare with April 28th 2017, April 13th 2020, April 24th 2021, April 16th 2022). Recorded the first Holly Blue plus a variety of flies, bees and bugs