We've had a lot of hot, sunny weather lately but today is a bit overcast and fair old breeze. Even so, I managed to get a fairly decent photograph of a small hoverfly that was enjoying the contents of a
white bacopa flower growing in a basket on the back of my house.
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| Hoverfly in white bacopa flower - Macro |
The wind is very drying and there's still no rain after days of dryness, so I've been out and done some watering of the containers, and dead-heading of various flowers, and when I noticed that a new web had been created between the hanging basket and the potted ivy plant on the garden table below, I thought that Arry Arachnid, the
female Araneus diadematus, was back in place. But, I was wrong. The web belongs to a new male Araneus diadematus (not
Henry), let's call him Ernest, and when a greenfly landed on the web, Ernest came shooting down but I think he was trying to bite off a bit more than he could chew. I read in an article that females are able to eat their own body size and I saw how much Arry shoved down her throat in one day, but males can't, apparently. They probably prefer a drink down the pub!
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| Male Araneus diadematus and greenfly - Macro |
Although the Malva moschata 'Rosea' plant was buzzing with bumblebees and honeybees, and one bumblebee in particular was kicking up a pollen storm, some bumblebees found it all too much and I caught one sleeping on a
Polka raspberry leaf and another one buried up to its back end inside a
Champagne Moment flower.
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| Bumblebee on Malva moschata 'Rosea' - Macro |
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| Bumblee dozing on Polka raspberry leaf - Macro |