Today has been a glorious autumn day, almost like spring in reverse.
Bees and butterflies, wasps and hoverfly, have all been on the wing today. I've been on my decidely non Mercury winged running shoes, and also on my backside on a chair at Rumbles cafe. This area acts as a suntrap on fine days, and the butterflies I had rather given up on have been getting a final gulp of nourishment from the remaining flowers.
Ivy, in particular, is a lifeline at the moment for the remaining bees and wasps, its emerging strongly smelling flowers attracting insects from a wide area. Indeed, I think the one lurking in my drive way has a wasps' nest in it somewhere, judging by the fearsome buzzing sound within.
As long as it stays out there, and not in my roof as happened a few years ago...
Bees and butterflies, wasps and hoverfly, have all been on the wing today. I've been on my decidely non Mercury winged running shoes, and also on my backside on a chair at Rumbles cafe. This area acts as a suntrap on fine days, and the butterflies I had rather given up on have been getting a final gulp of nourishment from the remaining flowers.
Ivy, in particular, is a lifeline at the moment for the remaining bees and wasps, its emerging strongly smelling flowers attracting insects from a wide area. Indeed, I think the one lurking in my drive way has a wasps' nest in it somewhere, judging by the fearsome buzzing sound within.
As long as it stays out there, and not in my roof as happened a few years ago...
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| Delighted to see the first small tortoiseshell in the rumbles flowerbed |
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| On a dandelion |
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| Close up tortie |
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| Small copper hanging on in |
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| Small copper on ragwort |
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| Common or striped carder, I think |
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| It loved this plant |
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| Still struggle with focus |
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| Hoverfly on my bicycle |
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| Bee on ivy |
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| Beware wasp! |
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| Kite flying in the evening wind |
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| One up one down |
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| A beautiful evening |
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