Tag Archives: insect

Oct 13 2025
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Ladybird on Guinness

Sunday 12th October 2025, 2.10pm (day 5,162)

Ladybird on Guinness, 12/10/25

Far too nice a day to stay in, something that the ladybirds had also decided — there are plenty of them around at the moment, probably getting in their last greenfly before it becomes too cold and they die or hibernate or do whatever it is they do over the winter. My pint of Guinness didn’t have any hanging around on, or in, it but maybe this one was just resting on the cool plastic for a while. Is ladybird.guinness.football a ‘What3Words’ waiting to be used?

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Aug 11 2025
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Grasshopper, not on grass

Sunday 10th August 2025, 12.40pm (day 5,099)

Grasshopper on stone, 10/8/25

It’s a shame its head is slightly out of focus but otherwise I like this portrait of this little creature that decided to join me for a while, sitting on a wall. Not its natural habitat, but like me, perhaps it was just enjoying the sunshine.

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Jul 23 2025
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Get out of my way

Tuesday 22nd July 2025, 11.10am (day 5,080)

Ladybird, 22/7/25

This little creature definitely wanted to continue its forward trajectory, only at this point the lens of my camera was less than an inch from its nose (do insects have noses? Anyway you know what I mean). Doesn’t it look just that tiny bit annoyed about the situation? On the other hand, I am satisfied that the focus is correct.

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Jun 29 2025
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Fulfilling its bee-ing

Sunday 29th June 2025, 1.40pm (day 5,057)

Bumblebee, 28/6/25

Must have had at least a dozen attempts at capturing this example of insectile wiggliness. Don’t know why we call them ‘bumblebees’ though — they don’t seem to bumble to me, they are very systematic. Just this much time at each flower. Which is why, once I finally got the rhythm of it, I got the shot.

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May 28 2025
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Chances of being saved, fairly high

Wednesday 28th May 2025, 2.40pm (day 5,025)

Insect on beer, 28/5/25

I suppose, to an insect, that the foam layer on top of a glass of beer looks like a solid landing place. But this is one of those risks that if it gets a second chance at it, this will only be because of the benevolence of the putative drinker of said beer, who doesn’t want a mouthful of insect to spoil his enjoyment. Learn the lesson, kid.

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Oct 21 2024
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Ladybird on table

Sunday 20th October 2024, 3.35pm (day 4,805)

Ladybird, 20/10/24

It’s just a ladybird, off for a walk. They can fly, they just seem to prefer walking. Another shot used mainly because the focus came out right, and the shot therefore ended up as intended.

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Sep 07 2024
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Fly on post

Friday 6th September 2024, 3.15pm (day 4,761)

Fly on post, 6/9/24

Another day when there wasn’t really a great deal to look at, but it was a sunny afternoon with good light, so in the end, something came up. I like how the air behind it seems to shimmer with the promise of a golden summer, but of course all that is in the past — today could have been the last truly sunny and warm day until March, for all we know. And let’s consider ‘post’ as having a double meaning.

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Aug 31 2024
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Beehives

Thursday 29th August 2024, 1.45pm (day 4,753)

Beehives, 29/8/24

While walking, as is my wont, through random parts of the country this afternoon I suddenly became aware that what looked surreally like a set of filing cabinets stuck in a field 1,200 feet above sea level was in fact home to a very, very large number of bees. This was not just a ‘hive’, but an entire bee city. Prudently, I swung round on a considerable detour — but there’s always the zoom lens option. (A note to the managers here — please, put ‘Keep Out!’ signs at both entrances to a field…)

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Sep 05 2023
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What’s eating the plums

Tuesday 5th September 2023, 4.25pm (day 4,394)

Butterfly and plums, 4/9/23

We have reached an officially measured total of 21.2kg/46.6 pounds of harvested plums. This is the all-time record haul since it started bearing fruit about fourteen years ago (we forget exactly). I think the insects can have their fill now, I’m feeling plummed out.

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Aug 10 2023
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Out foraging

Wednesday 9th August 2023, 2.25pm (day 4,367)

Blackberries and insect, 9/8/23

The insect was after the nectar. The flower wants its pollen moving on. I wanted the blackberries, the seeds of which will in turn be distributed. We all get something out of the transaction.

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