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Mistress Rose
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gz
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buzzy
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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Posted: Fri Aug 02, 19 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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i met one of these this aft, friendly enough but it came to visit me , most seem nice guests and rather poor hosts
mine was a worker so i guess there is another spp in the biodiversity list.
that id was quite lucky as i managed to remember enough details in 20 seconds and they are rather distinctive.
separating some of the yellow ones into spp and q w d is a camera job, for me anyway
"ooooh its a wasp" is a bit of an over simplification, i had no idea how many spp there are or properly considered how the 3 forms look and behave differently.
i'm starting to rather like wasps and bees and hoverflies , i never new much about them ( and still don't ) but they are very pretty and delightfully alien to get to know
i have a feeling there are quite a few spp out there.
a wise scientist said if you want to discover a new species it is easier in your back yard than on an expedition or words to that effect.
not my goal but there are odd things in that there jungle and lots of
even trying to get my head around recording what lives in 20 ' of urban bramble is quite a logistic and techy problem when i can see it from here.
fun working out how, i think i have actionable intel for camera and lenses, i might have a few ideas of how to use that and what to use it for but i need to play with the kit and add that into how i define parameters and method.
i wonder how much folk miss when they have a month in a strange and challenging environment and most of the time they are just trying to stay alive find more gaffer tape or a satphone signal or work out why they have gone there:lol:
ps small blue and several small and medium white/yellow ones to add to the tally of assorted others over the last couple of months.
there are less wood whites this year than last but there were a lot of painted ladies.
lots of predator larvae, i think i must be up to about ten lady bird spp, then there are the lace wings and assorted other bitey beasts.
biodiverse is perhaps just getting to know it well but i have lived in nature and few places seem to have such a rich fauna in such a tiny area. |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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Mistress Rose
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lowri
Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 1322 Location: ceredigion
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Posted: Sat Aug 03, 19 10:40 am Post subject: |
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I've seen masses and masses of butterflies this summer, far more than usual. Red Admirals. peacocks, gatekeepers (or are they meadow browns?), small whites, small tortoiseshells, I saw one Common Blue earlier on in the summer, but the majority have been Painted Ladies! My drive, on a south slope, is not tarmac but some sort of aggregate, and when its sunny (very often recently!) they fly up off the road in droves, up to a dozen at a time, as I drive out in the van, and then they come back down again. I don't know if they actually bred here or are they migrants? |
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Jam Lady
Joined: 28 Dec 2006 Posts: 2501 Location: New Jersey, USA
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