A Walk of Discovery

I am lucky enough to live right on the edge of green belt land, and this morning I ventured out amongst the trees and the grass before the rains came again. These are some of the wonderful and beautiful insects I came across in the English jungle. I have yet to identify them all.

Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus)

Ichneumon Wasp

Black and Yellow Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata)

Fly

7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) larva

7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) larva

Yellow-barred Long-horn (Nemophora degeerella)

Photographs taken June 2016, local walk, Staffordshire.

06/1608/16 by Peter Hillman Categories: Local Walks, Nature PhotographyTags: Beetles, Flies, Grasshoppers, Insects, Ladybirds, Lepidoptera, Local Walks, Macro, Macro Photography, Moths, Nature Photography, Wasps, Wildlife Photography 3 Comments

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Sally says:

Jun 20, 2016 at pm

Love the soft muted colours of your featured image. Funky looking blue-grey larva. Any hey, wait a minute … I think I saw that black and white beetle in my yard. (Really.) Let me know when you ID it. 🙂

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- Pete Hillman's Nature Photography says:
  
  Jun 20, 2016 at pm
  
  Thank you. I like to get up close and personal, a bug’s eye view if you like, and for the grasshopper I had to get right down in the grass. The beetle is called the Black and Yellow Longhorn Beetle (Rutpela maculata), or the Yellow and Black Longhorn Beetle, whichever way you look at it lol! I hadn’t seen one for awhile, and before I knew it the darn thing lifted off and disappeared. Thankfully it allowed me one reasonable shot.
  
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  - Sally says:
    
    Jun 20, 2016 at pm
    
    Thanks for the ID, Pete. I’ll check that out here. You are a font of information!!
    
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