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Papillo glaucus

male

I'll leave out the puns about the lesser of two weevils. These two had just finished mating.

Lacewing eggs at sunset.

Colorful jumping spider posing.

RSPB Minsmere

NB: not captive. Seen making its way across my compost bin lid.

A pretty sheen and iridescence to this little native darkling beetle. Genus Ecnolagria.

15 mm body length

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Pararge aegeria

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Painted Lady Saltholme RSPB N00130

I think this one is likely an immature Lygus pratensis, wandering around a sunflower.

Wordwell, Suffolk

Hunter in Yellow - Sony A7S II, Macro Tube, Lensbaby Sweet 22

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Saitis barbipes mâle : Saltique salticidae

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Description changed from Common Blue to Adonis Blue 15-9-23

Location Devils Dyke Newmarket on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border

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C'mon, Dude...Go back to the Bumble bees!

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A mole cricket, so called because it digs like a mole and has its forelegs modified into a formidable pair of claw-tipped shovels. If you drop one of those onto not too hard soil, it will disappear in no time.

Tettigonia viridissima : Sauterelle verte

Lycorma delicata. It was unusual to find one in this phase of nymphal development so early in the season. It was an outlier.

Libellula luctuosa,

Order: Odonata

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Small Tortoiseshell N00055 Silverdale RSPB

They feed on plants in the Urticaceae (nettle) and Lamiaceae (mint) families. These bugs are somewhat unusual in that they exhibit brooding behavior. The female deposits eggs, about 120–150, in shallow burrows and watches over them. After the young hatch, the mother will bring food to them in the burrow for 1–3 days, after which the young will leave and forage on their own.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sehirus_cinctus

Monarch on a Pink Zinnia - Sony A7S II, Lensbaby Sweet 22

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Diese Wespe sorgt mit ihrem Flügelschlag für die richtige luftbewegung am Wespennest auf unserer Terrasse - Cooling wasp ...

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I think this would be one of the miniture solitary wasps (Chalcidoidae). That's a modest blade of grass this one was about to launch from, so really rather small. Not easy to find much information on these and they don't stay still much to be photographed.

Lackford Lakes Nature Reserve

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