A collection from today - with 2 "Firsts!"

Paul Iddon

Managed to get a bit of time to myself today and went to two nearby locations - the reclaimed waste land adjacent to Preston's dock area, and oddly enough, a small ditch at the side of an offshoot from the nearby bypass.

There are fly photos, ladybird photo's, moth photo's and my first ever photographs of two different sawfly.


White Plume Moth:






Sex in the bushes:




Little ladybird:






And the first recordings for me of two sawfly species:

This sawfly is the Rhogogaster viridis, the Green sawfly.

And finally the Figwort Sawfly, again, never seen one before like the above green, though there were maybe 4 of them flying around the bank of the ditch were these were found:






Paul.

IPClark

Excellent set Paul.

Love those sawflies mate

Overfocused

2 and 3 have quite a lot of blue in the shadows, and I think 4 has a blueish magenta rather than yellow or red. You might need to tweak the WB.

I like 2 and 4 the best out of all of them though

Paul Iddon

Thanks for the comments guys.


Paul.

RonChris

Nice series paul

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Lord Vetinari

Lovely series Paul, esp like #1 but those sawflies are both very interesting.
Brian v.

Paul Iddon

Thanks Ron, thanks Brian.


Paul.