A Mixture of Critters
Paul Iddon
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This fly must want a good scratch under it's leg....
This is a butterfly or moth cocoon - one to keep an eye on in the hope I see something emerge...
This first beetle is tiny - and I mean tiny. Less than 2mm, may have been just 1mm long not counting the antenna...
But this ground beetle was actually injured - it's possible I stood on it when I was looking around the garden, or maybe a bird had it instead, but it's back end was leaking some innards a bit...
Finally, this was as close as I could get with the camera, the whole cranefly was encapsulated inside the inner edge of the ringflash and diffuser!
Paul.
This is a butterfly or moth cocoon - one to keep an eye on in the hope I see something emerge...
This first beetle is tiny - and I mean tiny. Less than 2mm, may have been just 1mm long not counting the antenna...
But this ground beetle was actually injured - it's possible I stood on it when I was looking around the garden, or maybe a bird had it instead, but it's back end was leaking some innards a bit...
Finally, this was as close as I could get with the camera, the whole cranefly was encapsulated inside the inner edge of the ringflash and diffuser!
Paul.
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Brian v.
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The pupa (a cocoon is the silk-spun covering of a moth pupa) is almost certainly one of the white butterflies.
Harold
Thanks gents
Paul.
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