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    Hi,
    just popped in, you have some really nice pics.

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Posted 29-05-2008 at 03:34 PM Comments 0
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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.
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Posted 08-05-2008 at 04:07 PM Comments 0
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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.

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Posted 06-05-2008 at 06:10 PM Comments 0
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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.

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Posted 22-04-2008 at 07:29 PM Comments 1
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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.

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Posted 21-04-2008 at 06:13 PM Comments 0
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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.
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