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Had an unexpected visitor in the garden the other day - a red admiral butterfly. Natural light/fill flash
The heat has brought he flies out, snapped these on and around the back door. Don't even think it...
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I souped up Week 7's SOD post and bumped it to the top of my blog, right above the humor post from earlier this week. Still playing catch-up with the next weeks' writeups, and also have some other stuff coming. For now, enjoy a gorgeous queen butterfly, captured at Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
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The last cicada has stopped singing for this year -- just got too cold. Their song will be welcomed next year -- as they always are. Swamp Cicada (Tibicen chloromera), Mt. Pleasant, Maryland
A 0.6mm long male Anagrus atomus parasitoid wasp of the Mymaridae family found in rough grass in the garden. Additional pictures below.
A common wasp flew past me carrying something and landed in a nearby bush. Turned out it had a lacewing lunch whch it proceeded to demolish. +2min 20 secs after the first image
Was well pleased to get this one although it's showing a bit of wear to the wings. Easily mistaken for Southern hawker. Couple of differences are the Common has a saffron yellow costa, (Leading edge of the wing) and the blue spots at the base of the abdomen never fully join as do the Southern hawker's
Crowle moor, Lincolnshire