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Seen on our garage door this afternoon. A second shot of this little beastie looking up at him from below:
We’ve got lots of Lady Smock growing on the lawn and we are doing the whole no mow May this year so the Orange Tip Butterflies are loving the flowers that they can get at now.
This fly was awaiting opening time on this new poppy that has recently appeared on the bank of the burn.
I originally thought this was a female orange tip, not least because we have loads of male orange tip butterflies in the garden. However, having done a reverse search on Google it does look like this is in fact a Green Veined White Butterfly (Pieris napi) which was enjoying the
Debbie spotted this lizard basking on some old wood I had dug up out of the garden (it used to be part of the house’s old roof). Also known as the viviparous lizard apparently. We think we had an early sighting of this about 2 weeks ago but it legged
Another day, another shot from the garden. The New England Aster came good again with a very busy honey bee collecting the pollen this afternoon. A relatively straight forward shot although you do have to watch out for the sparkling highlights on the bee and its wings. You can see
It poured this afternoon and I was standing at our back door watching it come down and noticed the spider’s web.
Sorry about this, but it’s the New England Aster again, but I think you’ll agree, it is sufficiently different, with the addition of the hoverfly, to those that have gone before. Indeed, I’d say it was more like a much earlier shot of my last flower muse the echinacea. We
This hoverfly was very keen to get as deep into the lavender as possible.
Into the back garden and rummaging around the rosemary bush I found a few of these Rosemary Beetles.
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