Boss photos you've taken

[Bilbo]

Drone fly in the garden today (doing a bit of cleaning)...

Paul.

 

[Professor Toffee]

 

[Bilbo]

A rarity for me - I believe this is my first record of this hoverfly. Eristalis inticaria female.

According to Nature Spot, this large hoverfly is unlike the other UK Eristalis species in being a furry bumble bee mimic. (The males are dark with a reddish-brown tail) whilst the female (seen here) has a white tail and is somewhat larger.

Nature Spot also says this species always has a yellow scutellum.

Paul.

 

[cromofo]

Just took this from outside my house. F anyone who sets up forest fires, I hope they burn to bits.

 

[Bilbo]

This spiderling is really quite small still, she still has lots of growing to do, but I don't doubt that one day she will reach full size!

Paul..

 

[Bilbo]

Along came a spider...

...and sat down (beside her)...

One of my walnut orb spiders on the garden fence. She rappelled down until touching base and then settled down to try and out-stare me!

Paul.

 

[Seathestars]

Burj Khalifa Dubai, worlds tallest building.

 

[Bilbo]

In the process of spinning a web - this orb spider shows two clawed legs in contact with the silk and fresh silk coming from the spinarets.

Paul.

 

[Bilbo]

First few photos for a while this morning, but here is an orb spider with her capture, and then a cool bee, feeling the turn in weather, but flew away happily shortly after these were taken.

Paul.

 

[TyphooToffee]

I was going to post a photo here but my boss is a bit camera-shy.

 

[Bilbo]

Hairy little beggars - called woolly bears amongst other things, but I think it's a Ruby tiger moth caterpillar. Feasting on a rhubarb leaf.

Paul.

 

[Bilbo]

My legs are too long...

They don't fit in, lol..

Paul.

 

[dholliday]

boss as always @Bilbo good to see you're still at it


This guy lives on my balcony, and he's a beast! I call him Salvador and have pics of him catching and eating moths, flies and this one of a wasp:

 

[dholliday]

 

[Bilbo]

@dholliday - Nice captures m8 - she is a female (cross spider or garden spider) Araneus diadematus. You have her with a wasp - I usually get plenty of them in the garden in autumn when the apples from from our tree, but like many insects this year, there have been remarkably few.

I have seen hardly any butterflies - apart from the odd 3 or 4 that Bilbo Baggins Cat has caught and eaten (he doesn't catch birds!)

Yesterday I managed these 3 pics - I think this is a large white (Pieris brassicae) butterfly, only the 2nd one I have seen in my garden in 2017!

Paul.