It started off rainy and cool today, but by the afternoon the sky was blue and bright. We went for a walk at Jeskyns, which was thick with bugs and minibeasts of all kinds. This devil’s coach horse rove beetle was hanging on the top of a blade of grass for some reason, not making any effort to do anything else much.
Marbled white butterflies were absolutely out in force, along with ringlets, meadow browns, various skippers and whites, and the odd painted lady. Marbled whites rarely land, and then hardly ever stay still for long, but right towards the end, one stayed still enough for me to get my first ever reasonably workable photo of one!
A few other things – the black caterpillar with the light dots and the bluish spines is the larva of a Peacock butterfly. The blue spines usually look black, but they are showing up well in this light. We also have a Roesel’s bush cricket nymph, about a quarter of full size.
Back at home, I got a few shots of this goldfinch on the TV aerial up on the roof. Perhaps not the prettiest goldfinch you’ve ever seen, but nice and clear at least.
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