Broad centurion, otherwise known as green soldier fly, very common garden flies. The hairy eyes are characteristic.
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Spear thistle, flower buds and flower
Two spear thistles. One with the first flower opened, the other just before the first flower opened.
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Firecracker plant, flowers
Flowers on a firecracker plant in a local garden, indeed looking a little like the sparks falling from a firework
More artwork on the brickwork of the bridges crossing the South Staffordshire section of the Railway Walk at Lower Penn.
This time it’s dogs: perhaps even ones which are (or were) walked along this section of the bridgle path.
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Ants and blackfly
Blackfly predating on a foxglove, which was then just about to flower; ants in turn predating on the blackfly.
The ants may possibly be black garden ants, the blackfly possibly cowpea aphids.
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Reclusive painted lady butterfly
Painted lady butterfly earlier this month – whenever I got almost near enough for a picture, it either fled to the neighbouring front garden, or half-hid behind vegetation.
It looked pristine. Unlikely to be a migrant from the continental mainland. Last year there was abig wave of migration – this may for once have been a resulting British-grown individual.