Saturday afternoon and carried onto Druridge after a swift lunch in Amble where the Black Headed Gulls and a few Starlings benefited from Johns over exuberance with his Tuna wraps before departing in the morning. At Druridge it was a Butterfly and Common Darter Fest and unusually I was the one lagging behind when I started playing with the macro, whilst watching various Common Darters, on the Fuji which I hadn't really used a lot.
There was quite a lot of Butterflies around and managed to get shots of several of them
Common Blue
A Couple of Green Veined White in a Romantic Mood
Large Skipper
Small Tortoiseshell and Green Veined White
Wall
I also managed to take quite a few pics of various things with lots of legs but the following I haven't been able to identify. This insect did quite a few short hops but never let go of the piece of foliage it carried round. It looks like a normal fly but don't understand the carrying round of the leaf without any sort of purpose.
Not sure which Damselfly this is despite looking at all UK species, could it possibly be a female
Another fly with a version of "The Toons" strip on
Super day out with John, thanks mate.
2 comments:
"This insect did quite a few short hops but never let go of the piece of foliage it carried round. It looks like a normal fly but don't understand the carrying round of the leaf without any sort of purpose" — it's a leafcutter bee, it uses the leaf pieces for lining its nest.
Dear Anonymous
thanks for the info, John and I discussed some sort of leafcutting insect but what made me think different was that it just flitted from place to place but didn't seem to have a purpose as previously stated and I figured it wouldn't expend energy if it was using the leaf for nesting/breeding purposes. I found a good article at http://blog.wildaboutants.com/2012/05/04/more-about-leafcutter-bees/. Thanks for the help
John
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