But then I thought, sod it! What have they ever done for me? And so I flung off my John Travolta white suit and settled down to write this blog update...
And you can stop laughing at the thought of JJ in a white suit thank-you! It's stemming the flow of my creative juices.
Here we go then, it's Saturday November 221st as I write and...oh hang on, not 221st that would be ridiculous, 21st was what I meant. Looking out the window I feel that bug-hunting might have to be put on hold for a while?
A couple of participation photos to begin this update. We'll start with...
You must name the species from the silhouette, good luck.Fingers on buzzers!
Too easy huh...thought it might be. Try this for something a little more taxing...
Me? Haven't a clue. Alright I have an idea about the second one, and of course I know what the first one is because there would be little point in me setting a quiz that I didn't hold the answer too.
Weevily type weevil thingies next...
I suppose you'll be wanting me to identify these weevils for you? Okay, how's this. The first two are the same and the second one isn't.
A little bit of...
I was able to keep a watch on the sawfly larva I found at a local pond as it was on a small alder shrub and never did move from the one leaf I first spied it on. It grew into quite an impressive thing before disappearing from sight overnight...
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| Cimbex connatus-A Large Alder Sawfly Larva (Hymenoptera) |
An instance of my perceived weirdness now. What would most people do when they find a dead wasp in the window do you think? I'm guessing something a world apart from what I chose to do. Namely, use the opportunity to get a stacked image of the beast. Good fun but I wish I'd made a better fist of it. Not enough light!
What do I mean by not enough light? Let me re-phrase it, it was too dark! The longer explanation would be that I was trying to manage with natural light from the window only.However, I should have gone with my gut and not the camera's light sensor as I did. The lack of available (and even) light has resulted in a loss of clarity.
That's okay though, life is a learning curve isn't it. If not then this is...
Actually, mine can be a bit more like this...
Now I don't mean to be a rouch, or a rump about this. I am trying to be grown-up. Gosh! it worked that time, perhaps it is radually improvin ?
onna i nore it and carry on re ardless...
A long, long time ago, but I can still remember, because it was January this year when I found this...
I thought at the time that it was a spider egg sac but wasn't sure and had no idea of species. Somebody suggested walnut orb-weaver possibly. Anyhow, I managed to find it again, it was early March and by this time the eggs inside and indeed, developing spiderlings were starting to show...
By the third week of March, they had emerged...
I think these could well be walnut orb-weaver spiderlings. Here's a single individual...
Well the first of these two pictures above is definitely slime mould but is the second fungi too? What else could it be?
I'll leave you to ponder that but please...don't lose any sleep over it? Meanwhile, here's an image I constructed from the patterns of a small tortoiseshell butterfly...
Until the next time...
