Wildlife mid 2009

[Armin]

Anthony,
wunderful moth images

[Lesley Cox]

Oh my golly! Those two are spectacular. Wonderfully marked and coloured. What a thrill to have them at your place Anthony.

[Paul T]

Very, very cool on both counts, Anthony.  The colours on the mating ones are just amazing, aren't they?

[Ragged Robin]

Fabulous images of the Robin Moth with her mate Anthony and so exciting to capture them so beautifully. 

On down loading my photos my computer crashed and now I'm trying to recover them from my card - very upsetting    Hope to post them soon if I can 

[Tony Willis]

wonderful moth pictures Anthony. Here is a dragonfly at Spetchley Park Worcs.

[Paul T]

Gorgeous picture, Tony.  So wonderfully clear and perfect.  Striking dragonfly, isn't it.

[Tony Willis]

I think they are wonderful insects,powerful and striking.Great to watch as they hunt their territory

[FrazerHenderson]

Some more "bug" pictures
- for which I take no credit as they were all photographed by my wife Lynn, a fellow SRGC member.

I particularly like the ladybirds secreted in the lichen.

[Ragged Robin]

Great photos Lynn, thanks for posting them Frazer.... I Love the red of the ladybirds hiding in the silver lichen - quite a horde, or a hiding of ladybirds - wonder what a group of ladybirds is actually called 

[FrazerHenderson]

I've always used "rash" as the collective noun for ladybirds.

[Anthony Darby]

That's an excellent name Frazer. I remember when my parents took me to Lowestoft (Suffolk) in the early 60s to collect our neighbours, who were on holiday there. We lived in Loughborough then. That year there was a plague of ladybirds and a cream hotel looked as if it had a very bad rash as there where huge patches of densely packed ladybirds all over the wall, giving it a very strange look from afar. Even the boating pond was ladybird soup. Only once have I witnessed so many, the year after workmen fled from the nearly completed Humber bridge because of a plague of greenfly in 1980.

[Lesley Cox]

There's the connection I suppose? Many greenfly being a good food source so able to support a large ladybird population.

[Paul T]

Excellent Photos Lynn.  Thanks.  I too love the Ladybird shot.  Such a wonderful contrast.  Sort of like peeping into a hidden life.

[Kees Green]

Hi Here are some pics I took while on my enotomological field trips, actually included a pic of what maybe a new species of skink I discovered at the Takatimu Range which is in the province of Southland the South Island Of New Zealand, other pics are just for interest.

[Kees Green]

There was not enough room for all pics so here is part II, should have done spell check also, as it is entomological trips not enoto.., Yikes
I really liked the pics of the hawk/sphinx moths earlier, they are one of my keen interest areas along with cicadas and now weevils and chafers, also have a decent collection of butterflies.
Here is the lizard pic, as mentioned it is either a new species or a new location for what is known as a Barrier Skink, currently in the process of being named-the Barrier Skink that is.