Saturday, July 09, 2011

June Bugs in the Garden

A selection of creatures found in our garden during June

Chrysolina-fastuosa

Leaf Beetle Chrysolina-fastuosa

Chrysolina-fastuosa-2

Beetle aphodius rufipes (2)

Beetle aphodius rufipes

Beetle aphodius rufipes

…caught in the moth trap

click-beetle

Click Beetle ctenicera-cuprea

click-beetle-underside

…and its underside

Early Bumble Bee Bombus pratorum 2

Early Bumble Bee Bombus pratorum on buttercup

Enoplognatha sp pos ovata

Enoplognatha sp pos ovata

Enoplognatha sp-3

…you can see it spinning its silk

gooseberry-sawfly-larva

Gooseberry Sawfly larvae (Nematus ribesii)

large-red-damselfly

Large Red Damselfly

Leptopterna dolabrata

Mirid Bug Leptopterna dolabrata

mitopus-morio

Harvestman mitopus-morio

Pterostichus niger

Ground Beetle Pterostichus niger

shieldbug Picromerus bidens 2

Early instar Shieldbug Picromerus bidens

shieldbug Picromerus bidens 3shieldbug Picromerus bidens

Early instar Shieldbug Picromerus bidens, I came back to take more photos of this one and it had turned the same colour as the others!

sloe-shieldbug

Sloe Shield Bug (Dolycoris baccarum)

soldier-beetle Cantharis nigricans

Soldier-Beetle Cantharis nigricans

tiny-snail

Tiny Snail

tiny-snail-2

…and another

vine weevil

Vine Weevil (Otiorhynchus (Dorymerus) sulcatus)

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