Wildflower Project 5

Today, I collected small parts of any new wild flowers since my last post on May 20th. I photographed them on a lightbox with overhead flash to bring out all the features of leaves and flowers. I am sharing them in two posts as quite a number since the last survey. (Scarlet Pimpernel, Black Medick, Hop Trefoil, Nipplewort, Common Poppy, White Campion, Bush Vetch, Common Mallow, Dovesfoot Cranesbill, White Clover and Red Clover

Paxton Pits on a Muggy Day

It is 4 weeks since we last visited the Pits and enjoyed a few hours recording the wildlife. Yesterday was overcast with a gusty wind so not ideal for insect recording.

 

Cambridge Botanic Gardens Reopen

Cambridge University Botanic Gardens opened this week for Friends of the Gardens and will open next week to the general public. It was great to take Sadie and Meredith with their cameras for a visit there on Wednesday afternoon. While there Sadie took readings for her Home-School Science project on Heart Beat, Exercise and Recovery. Meredith just enjoyed running!

Life in a Daisy Part Two

A variety of flies, bees and a green leaf bug photographed on oxeye daisies. The first image of a Snail-killing fly (Ilione albiseta) is my favourite for its truly SciFi appearance. Fortunately it is very small!!

Life in a Daisy Part One

The first of two posts showing the enormous variety of wildlife found on the heads of Oxeye daisies from the two spiders (Orb Furrow Spider , Cucumber Spider) to the many Beetles and butterflies and moths