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That's a great head-on m8, nice image.

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A great choice - good series of 3 and a fine winner.

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Lovely capture Mik - I kinda hope the bee got away though... 

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6 minutes ago, Fogey said:

I really am lost for words.

Don't be, lol....  

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After getting those spider photos I found this splendid resting chalcid wasp (Chalicidoidea indet). Amazing colours.

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Two spiders out of the dozen or so that were on the fence last night.

First is a male rabbit hutch spider (Steatoda bipuncta - one of the false widows) and the other two are of a silver-sided sector female (Zygiella x-notata) making herself a meal of a midge.

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Thank  you - this was my fave too - but it sat in the middle of the sequence (sadly for her) and was the most enduring portrait.

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It has a pug face - and I can see why if there were only two! 

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Why 2 Geoff?

Would one pull the other as well as the carriages?

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Great eyes - not sure which hover though.

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Great photo Mik - it's been very busy for sure!

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I think it's a tiger fly - Coenosia tigrina.

Good angle to see the mouth.

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Cheers Geoff 

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Thank you Geoff 

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Thank you Polly - the cool conditions kept the bee there for a while, though she did eventually head home.

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24 minutes ago, Fogey said:

You are such a master of understatement, Paul.  How can a fly be accused of not posing properly?

Amazing photography!

Haha, well, the brown one kept turning it's back to me, and the green one was half hidden and that's all I  could muster!

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It was a cool evening today, and this bee was taking in some last minute nourishment...

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A true capsid bug, a couple of flies that wouldn't pose properly, and the lovely Pholcus phalangioides in the shed, one of my resident cellar spiders...

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Parrot tulips are wonderful and even off the stem, they look great.

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A great storyboard Polly - and it shows how even a tree can easily succumb to natures forces!

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Lovely  dogs, they look very happy Leon.

Good to see you again m8.

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Savage indeed Mother Nature...

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The images won't open Geoff (archived) but reading the comments, I get the general idea!

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Yes I did Polly, I'm quite pleased at the clarity and composition too.

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7 minutes ago, Fogey said:

Tangled web spider? and Jumping Zebra spider?  A tragic story told in such detailed images.... I stand in awe.

Thanks Jeff - these two ladies tangled, but there was only one survivor...

3 minutes ago, Clicker said:

What a magnificent set and accompanying narrative Paul ...  Recording the event must have been  quite  difficult both from and emotional and  a physical  point of view ... sometimes it is hard NOT to  interfere with Nature's  Balance  and  to follow one's instinct to "save "  a creature ... We have interfered  too often with  the balance of nature  on our planet I'm afraid ....

Thanks Polly. I feel that if I hadn't encouraged the jumper to be a model, it may not have wondered over to the left side of the rock where it got too close to the killer, and I could maybe have intervened too, but could have harmed both... Either way, I felt a pang of guilt...

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