Bits and Bobs
30 Nov 2019
Lavender cuttings Potatoes Lourie fledgling Growing Lettuce Eristalis Tenax on Alysum Hadeda Ibis flying home
Tag: Dragonflies
There be Dragons!
23 Nov 2019
Female Orange-Winged Dropwing. Front garden – 23/11/19 Ark
Bugs, Birds, Butterflies and Bits n’ Bobs
19 Nov 2019
Jumping Spider Long Horned Beetle Virgil Kirby’s Dropwing. Fire Tailed Resin Bee Extremely harmless Scorpion Spider (Platyoides walteri) – even to Scottie and Nan. Garden Commodore. These butterflies have a Summer(wet) and a Winter (dry) form. First one I have seen this season. Tiny Lappet Moth caterpillar. Rescued from one of the cats, it is … More Bugs, Birds, Butterflies and Bits n’ Bobs
Leading you up the garden path – Day and Night
15 Nov 2019
Thread -Waisted Wasp. Potatoes and Squash Female Trithemis furva, Navy Dropwing. Fresh Chillis – Picked this morning. Unidentified Beetle/Bug on Alyssum. On a clear day – Across the Valley. Hillbrow Tower Venus, Neptune and Saturn (top right corner). (Cellphone shot courtesy of Ems.) Ark.
There be Dragons!
13 Nov 2019
Kirby’s Dropwing. 12/11/19 Ark
There be Dragons!
28 Oct 2019
Red Veined Darter. Female. 28/10/19 Ark.
There be Dragons!
14 Oct 2019
Kirby’s Dropwing First of the season! 14/4/19 Ark
There be Dragons!
6 Jan 2019
Male Orange Veined Dropwing. Ark 6/1/2019
Dog Days … for Dragonflies.
19 Dec 2018
‘Cooling Off’ Young Male Orange-Winged Dropwing this morning. Ark.
There be Dragons!
17 Dec 2018
Orange-winged Dropwing (Trithemis kirbyi) Photographed yesterday afternoon. I sharpened the image a little with the specific intent of trying to create the effect of stained glass. For Sally , who dabbles in glass! Ark.
There be Dragons!
24 Nov 2018
Trithemis kirbyi, – Kirby’s Dropwing – (also known as the orange-winged dropwing, or scarlet rock glider), stops for a breather on an Iris leaf 22/11/18 Ark
Dragonflies – Red Veined Darter (male and female)
10 Oct 2018
Wings up! Wings down! Ark
