July 2011 Photo Competition - Visitors

[Josse]

Graceful hoverfly visiting Schwantesia ruedebuschii.

[Jens]

Thelocactus ehrenbergii (T. leukanthus)

[Victoria]

Stapelia hirusta (I think) with blowfly larvae. As a budding Dipterist this sort of thing makes my day!

[srboisvert]

A repeat visitor to my garden. [This is not my cat though he may have adopted us]


Succulent cat is now a tenant in my glasshouse by srboisvert, on Flickr


Succulents cat is succulent by srboisvert, on Flickr

[AnTTun]

And scented one:

[georged]

Leafcutter bee carrying leaf to its nest in a tube under propergator.

Because of the delay between pressing shutter release and the shutter opening I had to point the camera in the right area and press the button as I heard the bee flying over my shoulder. After several attempts I was lucky enough to get this shot.

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[Lithos]

Over the last few months several of my Lithops have mysteriously disappeared. Last week whilst re-potting some plants in the garden I found a load buried in the pots. So I set up a camera on a trip wire, and caught this little fella posing for the camera.

The odd Lithops here and there I can live with, but now he's getting really cheeky - those pots are expensive!

[linx]

Not sure if you can add more than one photo to the competition so please delete these if you cant as I already have one entered.

These hoverflys sometimes take the most wonderful photos but not as good as that squirrel.

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Heres a greenbottle on sedum.

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[Mal H]

Nearly in focus.

[saljones36]

these flowers have been open for nearly a fortnight ,only fully today . this plant spends all the time outside ,bee spotted on flowers !!!!! .