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| | Welcome to our newest member, adams01 | | Uncategorized Entries with no category  | Posted 29-05-2008 at 04:34 PM by nutmeg This afternoon the sun made an appearance so I spent some time down at my garden pond. The vegetation (mostly nettles, burdock, cow parsley and yellow flag iris) has grown up round it making it very sheltered.
I saw four species of damselfly: Azure - the most numerous, with at least a dozen on the wing. Two pairs were mating and egg laying.  ... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Comments 0
 | | Posted 08-05-2008 at 05:07 PM by nutmeg This afternoon I spotted a 7-spot ladybird anchored by a cocoon - probably of the parasitoid Dinocampus coccinellae, a braconid wasp. The larvae of the wasp immobilise the ladybird and emerge to spin a cocoon between its legs. The unfortunate ladybird is still alive but paralysed, and will either starve or die from infection. 
Unfortunately, the ladybird... | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 06-05-2008 at 07:10 PM by nutmeg Updated 06-05-2008 at 07:56 PM by nutmeg I was able to spend some time in the garden this afternoon after I returned from work. The lovely warm sunshine has brought out a few butterflies. Speckled wood, holly blue and orange tip were seen here for the first time this year.  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
| | Posted 22-04-2008 at 08:29 PM by nutmeg I was out mowing the grass in the front garden, when I spotted the small Adonis' ladybird Hippodamia variegata. I've found it in the same spot before, but only rarely.  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 1
| | Posted 21-04-2008 at 07:13 PM by nutmeg I saw my first swallow of the year on 13 April at Whisby Nature Park, Lincs. This afternoon I saw the first of the year over my garden. Don't know if they were there earlier - the weather hasn't inspired me to spend much time outside.
I also noticed a pair of great tits building a nest in the soffit boards over my dining room extension. | Commander of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
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