Rushmere Country Park - Spring Insects

A walk in the sun around Rushmere Country Park, near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire this morning with my macro lens.

 

A Green Veined White feeding....

 

.....A beetle, possibly a weevil (misplaced my insect guide)....



....A Bug.....



 

....An Ant on a new fern frond....



....small flies on a daisy (with a very small beetle just off flower at right, not noticed at the time)



September Butterflies

A morning's  walk along the Grand Union Canal at Slapton, Buckinghamshire

 

Early morning whilst the water was still



 

A bit later a deadly Comma on its own warning sign...

 

....followed by a Red Admiral sitting on the tip of the rod of the no fishing sign five minutes later.  Why these two different species found these signs good resting places I don't know.  Perhaps they reflected heat as it was still quite early?

 

The Comma moved to the hedge...

 

....to feed on ivy flowers.

 

The delicate colours of a Green-veined White.  Its eyes are exquisite.

 

I only saw one individual of each of the above butterfly species, plus one Speckled Wood of which I failed to properly photograph