Garden Safari

The sun has brought a few bits out in and around the garden, though all of the following were snapped yesterday rather than today when it was actually a bit too warm to fanny about with the camera.

Hawthorn Shieldbug - minus one antenna

Birch Catkin Bug

Drymus sylvaticus - attracted to Nichola's yellow car

Pine Ladybird - one of at least five loitering on this variegated bush on the front garden

'Pollen Beetle' - Meligethes aeneus s.l.

'Cereal Leaf Beetle' - Oulema rufocyanea / melanopus agg.

Philonthus cruentatus perhaps?

Sadly I was potless whilst pottering about and it flew after this brief shot

Life In The Garden 28/08/2011

Been very lazy today; a good lie in, catching up on a couple of bits off of the Sky+ box (Torchwood and Dr Who), and going nowhere with the on-off crapness of the day's weather. Pottered in the garden a bit, and here's some random stuff:

Garden Spider

Rhingia campestris

Birch Catkin Bug (Kleidocerys resedae) - not a great shot but you get the gist.

This is new for me and the garden.

A currently unknown sawfly larva - one of a few I found feeding on the small garden birch. Any ideas?

Pill Woodlouse

Common Wasp

And a couple of moths not from today:

Firethorn Leaf Miner - found c20 of these resting on the garden fence yesterday afternoon, and I get the odd one in the traps so one of the neighbours must have something edible in their garden.

Pale Eggar