At nearly an inch long, the ground beetles are one of the good bugs to have in your garden.
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Boss photos you've taken
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I'm assuming a sawfly? It was on the soil below the zinnia's and didn't look too healthy, so I carefully popped it onto the flower, maybe that will help it, though I fear it's the wrong flower, and perhaps too late anyway...
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At nearly an inch long, the ground beetles are one of the good bugs to have in your garden.
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Looks like he/she is wearing all leather
A lot of beetles are quite shiny - this one less so, but the flash still has to be controlled to stop blow-outs.
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I remember a couple of years back @James posted a cracking pic of a stag beetle in the 'wildlife in your garden' thread.
Just a few from tonight - the first actually flew in and landed on the chopping board, the others were on the rhubarb leaf and the old wooden bird table - both in their own dining areas!
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The webs are built by the large females. At the tip of the abdomen there are three pairs of spinnerets, which secrete silk used to create the web. They usually face head down on the web. Orb Spiders are said to eat their webs each night along with many of the small insects stuck to it. They have been apparently been observed eating the web in just a couple of minutes! A new web is then spun in the morning.
So here is my ubiquitous Araneus diadematus with some more of the "lesser seen" angles - and you can see her... erm... lady bits quite clearly (epigyne)...
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So here is my ubiquitous Araneus diadematus with some more of the "lesser seen" angles - and you can see her... erm... lady bits quite clearly (epigyne)...
Paul.
Close to the garden spider I also found a dronefly settling in for the night though as I got closer I disturbed it and it flew to find somewhere a little more peaceful !
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About the only mushroom I’m 100% sure of by name - Fly Agaric. Took this today when out running.
Insanely hallucinogenic and dangerous.
I only know one lad who was stupid enough to take them and he spent all night up a tree lol
Goatfell, Isle of Arran, taken from the window of the house I’m staying at, in Brodick.
I found this harvestman (Opilio canestrinii) feasting and seemingly loving every mouthful...
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Two caterpillars in the garden last night. One around the geranium, the other on the leycesteria.
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Two caterpillars in the garden last night. One around the geranium, the other on the leycesteria.
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Stunning
May I ask where you saw this hallucinogenic mushroom please?
For avoidance purposes obviously
They’ve all over Allerton Manor Golf Course.
They seem to grow exclusively by Birch Trees ?