Showing posts with label Hover Fly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hover Fly. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 September 2013

The Start of September - Mainly Yellow


A sunny day in the garden on the 1st of September 2013.  Yellow seemed to be the theme
 
A hover-fly sitting on Golden Rail 
 
The brilliant metallic colour a Green Bottle
 
Another species of Hover-fly
 
A Digger Wasp that catches flies and hover-flies for its burrow
 
A Yellow Daisy


Wednesday, 8 May 2013

Boris the Spider and Harold the Hover Fly

First photographs of insects this year with the macro lens.  Not quite pin-sharp as I really wanted, but a reminder that the recent warmer Spring weather has given nature a push.

 
(Before somebody points it out, I keep forgetting that Spiders are not strictly insects, but Arachnids)