It was quite sunny yesterday as I left work. Watched this tree bumblebee going around the crocus.
Tag: insect
Large Dragonfly at the Japanese Garden. I wasnot sure what it was so uploaded to iNaturalist: Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea) from Clackmannanshire, UK on 14 October, 2024 at 01:41 PM by John Johnston · iNaturalist. Surly the last I see this year?
Peacock Butterfly Feeding on knapweed.
Green-Veined White on Valerian #butterflies #butterfly
In the Pink. Common Carder Bee (I think) on Mexican aster.
On a walk today I saw yet another birthday balloon (they get everywhere). When I went to pick it up and pop it in my rucksack I saw this wee guy, now Identified as a Vapourer Moth Caterpillar. looks like a punk type of bug.
I am beginning to see more peacock butterflies again, this one and more at Old Kilpatrick yesterday.
2 Six-spot burnet moths mating on a harebell.
I was watching this Golden-ringed Dragonfly as it caught onto a reed which bent under its weight.
School finished for the summer in the pouring rain at 1pm today. By 5 O’clock the sun and a few butterflies were out, including this Meadow Brown. By the Kelvin near the vet school.