A selection of insect photographs from the UK Gardening gallery
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I've been taking photographs of plants in and around my garden since I bought my first digital camera in 2001 (three years after I has started this website). So whilst wondering where to keep the pictures in the days before Flickr and cloud storage, I thought I'd create a little database of them on my UK Gardening website, and I've been taking photos and adding them to my site ever since.Below is a very small, random selection of photographs I have taken over the last 26 years. To see a larger version of a photograph, click the image. You'll then be able to scroll left and right through the current selection.
Hawthorn shield/stink bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale)
Lilioceris lilii (lily beetle, scarlet lily beetle, red lily beetle)
Dilophus fibrilis (Fever Fly)
Enallagma cyathigerum (Common blue damselfly)
Belted hoverfly Volucella zonaria
Belted hoverfly Volucella zonaria. One of the largest flies of Britain. It mimics a hornet or wasp, but is harmless to humans. The adults are great polinators and their larvae are believed to eat wasp grubs.
Aglais io Peacock butterfly (European peacock)
Ladybird
Large rose sawfly (Arge pagana) larva
Red admiral on Sedum spectabile syn. Hylotelephium spectabile (ice plant, stonecrop)
Blackfly on floxglove
Enallagma cyathigerum (Common blue damselfly)
Aglais io Peacock butterfly (European peacock)
Nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis)
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Stag beetle (Adult)
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Stag beetle (Larva,grub)
Bright-line brown-eye moth (Lacanobia oleracea) caterpillars eating tomato leaves
Large white, cabbage white (Pieris brassicae) caterpillar
Geometra papilionaria Large Emerald moth
Pale tussock (Calliteara pudibunda) caterpillar
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