Wolves Wild

A speckled wood butterfly resting on a sunny wall, or rather on the one sizeable patch of lichen on the wall. In a quiet alley by St mary’s church, Bridgnorth.

Candy-striped spider, still on guard under the two hazel leaves stuck together by the web-ball holding what I presume are her eggs. She is still keeping steadfastly on guard, though in a somewhat different position every time I look. But no signs that I have been able to spot of any changes in the appearance of the web.

UPDATE: Since these pictures were taken, the female has gone, with still no sign of developments in the web complex. She may have given the whole thing up as a bad job, or have been spotted by a predator.

Every seed on this sunflower is part of two different spirals; one turning clockwise as it moves away from the centre of the seed head, a slightly tighter one anticlockwise. If all the seeds were still present, the numbers in the two spirals would (probably) be two consecutive members of the Fibonnaci series. The sunflower is one of those in the Women’s’ Institute garden, in Bridgnorth’s Castle Grounds Park.

Hemerobius micans, a type of brown lacewing. I turned over an oak leaf, and there it was, on the underside.

Petunias in a tub in front of one of the houses in East Castle Street, Bridgnorth. They looked almost black. If anything, the purple tinge comes over more strongly in the photos than it did to me in the flesh.

Another day, another common darter dragonfly. Once again, it’s a male. The females aren’t as conspicuous. They don’t have bright red bodies, and they don’t spend their time posing, trying to attract the attentions of the opposite sex. This time, I had a more powerful lens with me. So I could get these pictures as it settled first one one spot then another by the pool in Compton Park.