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Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus)
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Ladybirds on Japanese anemone
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Taken on a lovely day last
summer when I went to Kirkby
Gravel Pits with my parents and
daughter. ...
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Uploaded on Nov 14, 2009
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Uploaded on Nov 2, 2009
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Drip
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Ladybird on Japanese anemone
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Today I spent a bit of time at
Whisby Nature Park. It was a bit
gloomy and drizzly so I only
took my ...
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Uploaded on Oct 31, 2009
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Caught in the late afternoon
light. The rather streaky
background is my garage
door.
7-spot ...
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Uploaded on Oct 28, 2009
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Cream-spot ladybird (Calvia 14-guttata)
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Pollen
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Uploaded on Oct 26, 2009
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A bee smothered with dandelion
pollen.
One from the spring.
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Uploaded on Oct 24, 2009
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Reddish fungi
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Thistle Tortoise Beetle (Cassida rubiginosa) and bug companion of unknown ID
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Taken almost exactly two years
ago at Kirkby Moor, Lincs.
I
have no idea what they are -
fungi ...
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Uploaded on Oct 17, 2009
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A tortoise beetle actually
moving! It wasn't until I viewed
the photo later that I noticed
the ...
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Uploaded on Oct 16, 2009
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Hedgehog
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Wasp
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My daughter and I went over to
Whisby Nature Park this
afternoon and saw a hedgehog
pottering along ...
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Uploaded on Oct 10, 2009
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This is a male wasp, possibly
Gasteruption jaculator. The
female, with a very long
ovipositor, can ...
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Uploaded on Oct 4, 2009
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Shadowed
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Red Underwing (Catocala nupta)
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A reed beetle, Donacia
sp.
Thought I'd convert it to a
B&W in order to enhance the
shadow.
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Uploaded on Sep 26, 2009
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I put my trap out in the garden
for both nights of National Moth
Night last weekend. Friday ...
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Uploaded on Sep 21, 2009
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A spider makes a meal of a Common Blue damselfly
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Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta)
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Whisby Nature Park, Lincs.
One
from the beginning of the month.
I'm still not finding time to
get ...
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Uploaded on Sep 19, 2009
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I had to go over to Lincoln
yesterday and managed to find
time for a brief visit to Whisby
Nature ...
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Uploaded on Sep 6, 2009
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Common Darter
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Robber fly eats a fly
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Very busy at the moment, but
thought I'd pop on here for a
few mins.
This is a Common
Darter from a ...
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Uploaded on Sep 3, 2009
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If you like a bit of gory drama,
wooden fences are great places
to find robber flies on sunny
summer ...
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Uploaded on Aug 19, 2009
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Longhorn beetle
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Antler moth (Cerapteryx graminis)
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One from our bimble at Kirkby
Moor last weekend. It seemed
like each clump of ragwort had
one of ...
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Uploaded on Aug 16, 2009
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An aptly named moth. Came to the
moth trap last night - a new one
for the garden.
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Uploaded on Aug 14, 2009
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