David

Hawthorn shield bug. This one was resting on my bag – there had been a lot of hawthorns in flower where I had been walking.

The delicate purplish flowers of ivy leaved toadflax growing, as is its habit, as patches of plant clinging to a wall.

Green shield bug, just resting on a leaf. The ones I notice usually are.

May is the month for the delicate flowers of cow parsley.

The scarlet tiger moth caterpillar which had made an indoor visit (yesterday’s post) now returned to the more appropriate surroundings of a garden well stocked with plenty of vegetation.

Doing its best to eat the alkanet leaf it was resting on.

May (hawthorn) flowers in the hedge separating the Barley Field from the Railway Walk, earlier this month.