Insect Of The Day

[GuyF]

Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

Excellent shot Guy. That's a beauty. Looks just like bark.
Perhaps now it's not quite so cold, we'll have a few more moths and insects deciding it's ok to come out.

Thanks Julie, he certainly lives up to his name!
Hopefully we'll start to see a few more insects around now, I'm really looking forward to seeing some of the early spring species around, shouldn't be too long to wait especially if it keeps getting milder.
Guy

[tameblackbirds]

Posted, with not the best image, my first Honey - bee that I saw Monday during a walk a NT reserve Clent. Today outside my Kitchen window 2 honey bees on Hellebore

Image pending so can't show at the moment as I have just added to my Gallery will show asap

[Jason Green]

1st black ant today!!!

[tigger]

It has to be the dronefly E. tenax I saw in the garden today, sunning itself on a crocus. Not because it's rare, just because it was a thrill to see it in the garden again!

[aeshna5]

2 male Brimstones flitting through the woodland garden at Wisley yesterday. Also lots of Honey Bees + a couple of queen Bombus terrestris.

[tigger]

The 2 Bombus terrestris queen bumbles that were on my crocus today, cheered me up no end to watch them covered in pollen!

[tameblackbirds]

The Honey bee that was in my garden yesterday

[Hedge Witch]

I couldn't get a photo, but I saw a beautiful male Brimstone butterfly in the garden today - a first for me

[Jason Green]

Lucky you...

Where do I start?! Um... my first 22sp Ladybird for 2009 (doing well in the garden lasy year, breeding; hopefully a good sign ), an ant - Lasius niger (second sighting of one this year), locally-distributed planthopper Hauptidia maroccana (a first) and a springtail Heteromurus major possibly (also a new one)

Spring's arriving

[Deer Stalker]

A Bombus terrestris queen in my parents garden & the Tick that was on my girlfriends' leg when we went up the Forest in the afternoon!