Insect photos
(including spiders)

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Bees & Wasps

The first two photos (of lavender) were taken in my garden in July 2019. The next 3 were at a patch of wasteland (not my garden) in Cranham early in August 2016. The giant wasp was on a window ledge in my house, late April 2001; I think it was a queen looking for somewhere to nest.

Damselflies

Photos 1-4 were taken along the banks of the Grand Union Canal near Uxbridge, late June 2003. Number 2 shows the male Common Blue's charming habit of grabbing his mate by the neck. The last 2 Banded Agrions (Agria?) were seen near Witham in June 2017.

Other insects

"Ladybird on a Teasel" was seen near Dartford Heath, June 2003. "Balancing Act" was near Shoreham (Kent), July 2004. The Bush-cricket (rotated 90°) was climbing up a curtain, in August 2001. The Pondskater skated at Harefield Place, September 2001. The large fly (maybe a scorpion-fly?) was at Langdon Hills, late May 2003. The sawfly larvae were eating silver birch leaves in my garden, September 2005.

Spiders

The Garden Spider is building its web in my garden in September 2006; I've cheated with the finished product, which is one it (or more likely its ancestor) made earlier - in July 2004. The spiderlings were photographed near Wivenhoe, June 2010.

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