Two Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) Today
Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2011 1:18 pm
Two Red Admirals (Vanessa atalanta) Today:
Nice and sunny and warm in the garden today (Sun 30th October 2011) and lots of activity around the Ivy (Hedera helix). Bees, drone flies, bluebottles, green bottles, 2 Harlequin Ladybirds (Harmonia axyridis), wasps and the best of all two Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterflies.
For the other flies and wasps and bees I'd have to kill them, pin them, peer at them through a microscope and get keys for them and eventually identify them; sorry I haven't the time and I don't want to go on a killing spree today!
Nice and sunny and warm in the garden today (Sun 30th October 2011) and lots of activity around the Ivy (Hedera helix). Bees, drone flies, bluebottles, green bottles, 2 Harlequin Ladybirds (Harmonia axyridis), wasps and the best of all two Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta) butterflies.
For the other flies and wasps and bees I'd have to kill them, pin them, peer at them through a microscope and get keys for them and eventually identify them; sorry I haven't the time and I don't want to go on a killing spree today!