Wildlife photos please number 2

[Jungle Jane]

Red admiral today visiting my plants

[MelanieSW]

The terrible twins (aka 2 of my 3 garden designers...)

[Nicos]

That’s really lovely Melanie

[Jungle Jane]

Lots of these bees in the garden,I see about eight of them travelling together,there’s probably more down the bottom of the garden,I’ve never done a bee count,that would be quite hard because they could just follow you

[Plot70]

That is a bee mimic fly.
This one looks even more beeish.
https://www.ispotnature.org/communit...ella-bombylans

[DannyK]

A pretty moth. ID please.

[Jungle Jane]

The jersey tiger moth,I’ve never seen those in the garden,nice one Danny K. I didn’t realise about the bee pretenders thanks Plot

[Nicos]

We occasionally get that moth here. Very pretty.

[Plot70]

I found a super-caterpillar on my allotment the other day.
It was walking across the shed doorstep and almost got trodden on.
It was walking along sticking its head in every crack and crevice it came across for a place to pupate and hibernate.
I waited until it got to a small hole and put the tape measure by it while it stuck its head in.
I did not interrupt it as the food plants do not include anything useful to me. It has been doing a good job of keeping that wretched creeping willow herb in check.
It is the caterpillar of an elephant-hawk moth.

[Bren In Pots]

A good photo Plot, thanks.

[Jungle Jane]

I’ve got some of these grasshopper insects in the garden,in the long bits of grass,they’re new,shows I haven’t mowed the lawn much this year

[peanut]

Look whose living in one of my potato sacks. I rudely interrupted him whilst having a furtle.

[mothhawk]

While loading up my grory hop today I felt a tickle on my arm, and saw this guy....



Am I right in thinking it is a bush cricket?

[Nicos]

Yeh…I’d say so…bit hunched and long antennae…

nice piccie!

[DannyK]

The jersey tiger moth,I’ve never seen those in the garden,nice one Danny K.:

Thanks. This was at Riddlesdown, South of Croydon last week. It's the only one I've ever seen.
Quite a lot of butterflies about this year. There always seems to be lots of cabbage whites!