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3 days chasing this thing around the house, feeding it with water and sugar, sticking it in the fridge, threatening it with light, threatening it without light, trapping it under a saucer for a while and eventually it stopped on the wall for about five seconds!
a beautiful Horned Treehopper from the second triangle of Guestling Woods, only the second find of a treehopper, additional pictures below.
The 2 middle ones are different from the others but I find them interesting. I agree that doesn't fit "panel rules"
Not sure what this Lasius niger ant queen was doing but she seemed to have missed the ball. The other ants in the area flew about 3 weeks ago. Focus stacked using zerene stacker
Noticed a few black ants beginning to show some activity so I baited the top of a milk bottle with a drop of honey
It was sitting on my Rhubarb plant, sunbathing and catching insects to eat, it has just finished one in the pic
There are times I am SO glad I am not a flying insect! Wished I could have released him but I would have harmed him more if I had tried.
Green lacewing zoom series . I normally only see these in spider webs, so I cheated when i saw this one and trapped it in a glass and gave it a spot of honey to eat whilst i photographed it. Of course i did release it after. They do have beautiful eyes.
I've seen only two damselflies this year (both of which zipped off at 100mph before I even got near them), until yesterday when I visited the RSPB reserve in Lochwinnoch, where there were many. However, the ones yesterday were also speedy damselflies, and I didn't get close to many. This poor one was flying around, but it seemed to have a problem with its abdomen (it was bent at a funny angle), which is probably why I managed to get a couple of photos---I didn't bother it for long though, as I was sure it would rather have flown off, but maybe wasn't feeling great.