Category: David

A holly blue butterfly, resting on the edge of a leaf.

Pellucid hoverfly feeding on the heather flowers in a front garden.

The berries on a wild arum (lords and ladies) just starting to ripen from the top. On other plants nearby, they were already bright red.

Meadow brown butterflies seem to have been present in somewhat larger than usual numbers this summer (the other types of browns, the opposite …). Here are two which were feeding on thistle flowers in the verge of a country road on the outskirts of Codsall.

A big cobweb built on plants overhanging the canal near Compton. No sign of the inhabitant.

Green-veined white butterflies. Feeding on a flower, showing wing from below, with the white veining which gives the species its name. Resting on a leaf, showing the wings from above.