Yet another insect posing for its picture as it warmed itself sunbathing in the middle of the morning.
Author: David
Lupins growing wild
Tiny snails feeding in the morning
Ladybird cleaning its mouth parts
Thistle flower bud
Comfrey flowers and a leaf
Caterpillar on a leaf
Lesser stitchwort flowers
Stitchworts are a plant whose common names claim a relationship which doesn’t actually exist. The greater and the lesser both produce pleasant white flowers in the spring; the “wort” suffix to the names may indicate that they were once thought to be useful medicinally or for some other herbal purpose.
Caterpillars in a web
Pink chestnut flowers in a rural avenue of chestnuts
Lumps and bumps in a field
Today’s posts are from in and around Kilpeck, tiny village outside Hereford which has a small church with some famous nine hundred year old carvings.
The concentration of buttercups in the middle of the field marks one of the raised areas which is a remnant of a one-time building in the deserted village.