Intriguing Insects – Soft of Sight Photography

The Parasite’s Quilt

Tucked into the hedgerows, where the wild roses climb and curl, a strange thing grows in the warm early autumn sun. It looks like a sea urchin woven from fairy floss – pink and green, frizzed and fine, like something a woodland sprite might use as a hairbrush. But this isn’t a fruit, or a… Continue reading The Parasite’s Quilt

Velvet Bumble Bee

A velvet-bodied bumblebee, round and plump like a ball of thistledown with purpose, clings tenderly to the soft embrace of a lavender blossom. Its fuzzy coat is a patchwork of midnight black and sunflower gold, each strand glinting with whispers of pollen—a dusting of nature’s treasure gathered in earnest work. The bee’s head is bowed… Continue reading Velvet Bumble Bee

Beetling About

A mass of pale fluffy white and pale pink – thistledown, with the ghost of a couple of the thistle seed heads at the bottom of the frame. Seemingly suspended in the dreamy white mist (and yet actually standing on the soft downy seeds) is a long, slim orange beetle with long antennae and dark… Continue reading Beetling About

Glass Fly

A dreamy pastel coloured overhead shot of the most amazing glass like hover fly on a pinky lilac thistle type flower. The little insect has a banded yellow, black and white striped body. Their wings are so delicate and nearly transparent – all save the strong black veins in them. Their large orange compound eyes… Continue reading Glass Fly

Old Bee

Yesterday evening a very slow moving, pale furred bumble bee was (literally) hanging about on the lavender in the back garden. Unlike the other busy little bess she was just bumbling about, seeming very tired. She wasn’t flying from bloom to bloom, but walking. I would guess she was quite an elderly bee. Or very… Continue reading Old Bee

At The Butterfly Farm

A couple of months ago Vision Norfolk Viewfinders took a trip to The Bug Parc, which is not far from us if we take the Vision Norfolk minibus. Or The Blindie Bus, as I call it. As in “The Blindie Bus is coming, and everybody’s stumblin …” which I believe is a Venga Boys B… Continue reading At The Butterfly Farm

Butterfly Dreams

In the front garden one of the massive buddleia bushes is already in full flower. True to its other name – the Butterfly Bush – it is covered in bright colourful flutterers. This Peacock butterfly clung delicately to a cluster of purple blossoms, bathed in warm summer light. Its wings, partially open, blaze with vivid… Continue reading Butterfly Dreams

Ladybird

In the garden a stout tomato red ladybird was going about her business this evening. Or eating the tiny delicate tangle of stems and minuscule buds of white flowers that was she climbing on – which I believe is Hedge Bedstraw. Seen here in a dreamy cloud of pale green and white, we’re slightly underneath… Continue reading Ladybird

Flighty Whitey

A Small White Butterfly perches neatly on a tuft of purple Verbena bonariensis. The tiny flowers cluster together to form a bouquet of nectar rich blooms, and the creamy white Butterly rests on them as if posing for us. One inky black spot marks their veined triangular wings. This little one was a real challenge… Continue reading Flighty Whitey

Femme Fatale

A fat white crab spider lurks on a deep lilac bluebell as it peeks of the gloom of the woodland floor. She may be pale and interesting, but she’s deadly too ! – if you’re a fellow insect, that is.