Nature on Black Rock
The areas that I've walked in this summer have been remarkably short of butterflies, bees and insects in general. Then last week as I walked across Kemp Town gardens on Black Rock this Fatsia Japonica bush was alive with all of the missing insects from the summer and they were happy posing for my photographs. The stars of the show were the Red Admiral Butterflies which were on most of the flowers along with chubby bees, sparkly greenflies, tiny insects and these little stripy fellas which I decided were wasps but I wasn't sure. They certainly enjoyed annoying the butterflies.
I was told by a Flickr friend Gary, who specialises in photographing butterflies, that these are red admirals and the south coast is their last stop in the UK en route to the warmer climates in Europe.
Nature on Black Rock
The areas that I've walked in this summer have been remarkably short of butterflies, bees and insects in general. Then last week as I walked across Kemp Town gardens on Black Rock this Fatsia Japonica bush was alive with all of the missing insects from the summer and they were happy posing for my photographs. The stars of the show were the Red Admiral Butterflies which were on most of the flowers along with chubby bees, sparkly greenflies, tiny insects and these little stripy fellas which I decided were wasps but I wasn't sure. They certainly enjoyed annoying the butterflies.
I was told by a Flickr friend Gary, who specialises in photographing butterflies, that these are red admirals and the south coast is their last stop in the UK en route to the warmer climates in Europe.