UK: may flowers, moths, and gall wasps
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common_nature- May flowers (but no mayflowers) and the lifecycles of lepidoptera and gall wasps: details in rollovers or click through to flickr.
Garden tiger moth, Arctia caja.
Horse chestnut tree flowers, Aesculus hippocastanum, and horse chestnut leaf-miner moth, Cameraria ohridella. :-(
True blue alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens.
Bushy wild forget-me-nots, Myosotis ? probably sylvatica, for comparison with the following close-up image of their relative small flowered forget-me-not, Myosotis stricta, seen in extreme close-up hiding down amongst the grass in the second cap.
Dandelions, ? who knows which species (not me) ?, because in their place they’re beautiful.
Oak apple galls, caused by a gall wasp, Biorhiza pallida, sharing a tree with currant galls, caused by a gall wasp, Andricus quercusbaccarum, seen in close-up in the second cap.
Wild rose hips hanging on from last year.
Garden tiger moth, Arctia caja.
Horse chestnut tree flowers, Aesculus hippocastanum, and horse chestnut leaf-miner moth, Cameraria ohridella. :-(
True blue alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens.
Bushy wild forget-me-nots, Myosotis ? probably sylvatica, for comparison with the following close-up image of their relative small flowered forget-me-not, Myosotis stricta, seen in extreme close-up hiding down amongst the grass in the second cap.
Dandelions, ? who knows which species (not me) ?, because in their place they’re beautiful.
Oak apple galls, caused by a gall wasp, Biorhiza pallida, sharing a tree with currant galls, caused by a gall wasp, Andricus quercusbaccarum, seen in close-up in the second cap.
Wild rose hips hanging on from last year.
