July 2011 Photo Competition - Visitors

[Jim_Mercer]

I've been waiting all month for something interesting to turn up, but all I have been able to capture is a variety of bees on my sempervivums


bee_2_2538 by aCactus2008, on Flickr

Looking back through old pictures I still can't find very much, perhaps I need to leave the greenhouse door open more often


the_little_ boy_1328 by aCactus2008, on Flickr

[georged]

Today's visitor. Unfortunately it did not land on any plants.

Aeshna grandis (Brown hawker dragonfly)

[georged]

A couple of visitors to my Sedum spectabile last September.

Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

Comma (Polygonia c-album)

[Eveandrea]

This is little Hasi with a somewhat guity look

[Jim_Mercer]

Left door open today and this flew in (windows/vents covered by insect screen)


IMG_3277 by aCactus2008, on Flickr

This bug must have been there for a while as it had already eaten the end of one adromischus flower

[Lindsey]

This bug must have been there for a while as it had already eaten the end of one adromischus flower

Something eats Adromischus flowers ?!?!?!?

Naughty bug

[Alan Clark]

And the winner is Linx's hoverfly:

The subject fills the frame, the body is all in focus, and there is nothing superfluous in the picture.

I also liked Jim Mercer's hoverfly and AnTTun's second lizard. Jens's butterfly might also have won if the picture had been cropped.

[Lindsey]

Congratulations Linx, a well-deserved win.

Do tell us a bit more about the plant it was visiting! Outdoors, indoors, your own plant or somewhere else? Any label?? ( , -me)

[Jim_Mercer]

Something eats Adromischus flowers ?!?!?!?

Naughty bug

I think it is still there - it has spun a bit of a web and pulled three flowers together

[Bill]

Well I can't get hold of Linx for the next subject, Jim did the last one so I'll ask AnTTun to set the next one.

Bill