NEW VISITORS

[FUJI]

Our back garden is really tiny, so to have two new visitors was a real treat.....

 

The Blue Dragonfly was a real bonus, we rarely if ever see one if these........it kept on flying off at my approach, then suddenly decided I wasn't a threat, so decided to pose for me.

 

They arent the easiest of insects to focus on owing to their length and thinness, their colour doesn't help either?

 

The tiny moth was a really fast mover, i was lucky to get this shot, the best of at least a dozen..................I would guess that it is no more than a 25mm triangle.

 

Best viewed LARGE.........Click on Pic:

 

FUJI

 

[Paul]

Three nice ones Fuji. I can't tell you the moth though - there are hundreds of them so similar I bet.

 

Paul.

[JohnP]

Well captured FUJI... the blue Damsel is a male Azure and the moth looks like a Nettle-tap (Anthophila fabriciana). I hope Annie can say if I'm wrong.

 

[annie]

Wonderful captures Fuji....the damsels and dragons are pretty tricky to get, like you say.

 

The moth is Anthophila fabriciana....the only reason I know this is I had one ID the other day...those micro moths are a nightmare to ID...

[FUJI]

Thank you folks,

The ability to ID the macro life we capture for TIPF has come on leaps and bounds in the past couple of years, thanks to our resident experts Annie, Paul, Bugsy and Johnp........especially when they come up with the Latin name too.

That little moth was on and around nettles, I was surprised at how much dashing around it was doing.......are they hunting for something I wonder?

The Azure Blue, came as a complete surprise to me, it stood out like a flying neon sign so couldnt be ignored ........ I noted that whenever it was dusturbed it kept returning to almost the same spot on our Bay shrub, so I was able to await its return, I eventually managed to get in as close as I dare by moving very slowly towards it.

FUJI