Making up for your lack of insect life.....

[Kobione]

We haven't had much insect life either, because of our extreme heat this Summer - BUT.......we got gentle rain overnight, and today it's like we been invaded!!

 

Spotted this rather big guy in the corner of our mowing trailer as we were loading up:

 

 

Jewel Bugs abound!! We have never seen so many. Only tiny, about 4mm in length:

 

 

This Orb spider was very busy on his web, heaps of Jewel Bugs:

 

 

And we have the Stink Bugs back in the hundreds. This one was in the spider's web:

 

 

A very well camouflaged grasshopper:

 

 

 

And the spider I posted a picture of a couple of months age. He looks like he is burnt to a crisp, but he's still alive:

 

 

 

It has to be the moisture that has brought them out - an entertaining afternoon!

[bugmeister]

Love that jewel bug, good to see the buglife is still around, and looking forward to more pictures.

[FUJI]

Crikey!

KOBIONE, that new camera ( plus your increasing skills of course) have certainly improved your Macro Photography.......with great detail and clarity here.............

A brilliant set that helped to brighten a very stormy time here in the UK............the high winds are still howling around our house.

FUJI

[colinb]

I'm only glad there over there and I'm over here 

[fuzzyedges]

Nice to look nice to see

hope no one builds a bridge

So they can trot over to visit me

 

The crispy one looks a bit fearsome K

[Paul]

What a wonderful day. I would have been in ecstasy with so many chances in just one day!!!

 

 

Paul.

[NannyFerret]

Loving these shots, Dee.

They are so sharp and the colours are lovely.
I think everything here, including the birds have gone underground.

[Kobione]

Thanks all - don't worry Colin & Fuzzy - we'll keep them over here!!

 

Fuji, I am not yet fully utilising the camera. I haven't got used to not having a macro settings button on the top reel, but I'm getting there. Haven't done much for a few weeks because of our extreme weather - same as some of you. Hopefully that will improve, and I can start to 'learn' again

 

The jewel bugs we have literally in the hundreds, whereas we usually see maybe a dozen or so over a month. The spiders have only just emerged, and the Stink bugs have been very well hidden - under the house.

 

Don't know what we'll see next!!