More damsel flies

Damsel fly

More of the damsel flies on the pool at Wightwick Manor in early June.

Damsel fly

The electric blue species were not pausing at all.

Damsel fly

Lacy elder leaf

Elder leaf

This elder leaf  has been reduced to a skeleton of its toughest parts by insects eating it.

Sycamore leaf

Sycamore leaf

The red flecks, common on sycamore leaves, are a result of insect activity.

Hogweed flower

Hogweed

This fleshy plant used to be a cheap way of feeding pigs – hence the name.

Hogweed

Magpie

Magpie

This is probably a young one. It let me get close enough for a picture even though I didn’t have a particularly long lens.

Cuckoo spit

Cuckoo spit

Not in fact what the name suggests, but a froth which hides and protect the nymph of a froghopper: a small insect.