You have to love spring - everything starts to wake up again, the plants are starting to grow, hedges are starting to leaf, blackthorn is in full flower and insects and other invertebrates are emerging! hundreds of them this week in my garden! I had to get ID confirmation, but now I know these are a species of
Eristalis hoverflies also called
drone flies as they look very similar to a honey bee drone.
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| eristalis sp. hoverflies |
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| eristalis sp. hoverflies |
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| eristalis sp. hoverflies |
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| eristalis sp. hoverflies |
The Eristalis have a wing vein with a very distinctive loop which you can see in this photo
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| eristalis sp. hoverfly |
My garden also has many spiders you can see them all dart for cover when you get too close, but these
Nursery web spiders don't seem so keen to hide so I managed to photograph several of them!
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| Nursery Web Spider |
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| Nursery Web Spider |
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| Nursery Web Spider |
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| Nursery Web Spider |
and when I was photographing the spiders I also spotted this pretty little
woundwort shieldbug
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| woundwort shieldbug |
photography by Angela Smith
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