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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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Description changed from Common Blue to Adonis Blue 15-9-23
Location Devils Dyke Newmarket on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border
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.
Lycorma delicata. It was unusual to find one in this phase of nymphal development so early in the season. It was an outlier.
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.
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.
There are so many grasshoppers and such that it seems like the roads and the fields are moving. Many of my plants in my yard have been destroyed early this year. I try not to spray chemicals for the bees and the grasshoppers have taken advantage of that this year.
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Hier habe ich durch Zufall zwei Hauhechel-Bläulinge bei der Paarung entdeckt und musste natürlich dies in einem Bild feste halten. 😇📷❤
Eingerollt in sich selbst hält die Raupe einen stillen Moment zwischen Schutz und Verwandlung fest. Ihre Form wirkt wie ein kleines Geheimnis der Natur — unscheinbar auf den ersten Blick, und doch voller Kraft, Struktur und innerem Werden. Im warmen Licht scheint selbst dieses kleine Wesen etwas Großes zu erzählen: dass Entwicklung oft im Verborgenen geschieht, leise, langsam und doch unaufhaltsam. Gerade darin liegt die Schönheit dieses Bildes.
Curled into itself, the caterpillar holds a quiet moment between shelter and transformation. Its shape feels like one of nature’s small secrets — easily overlooked at first, yet filled with strength, structure, and becoming. In the warm light, even this tiny creature seems to tell something profound: that growth often happens in hidden ways, quietly, slowly, and yet irresistibly. That is where the beauty of this image resides.