The Firebugs have come out early this year, in the same place as in the last two years.

A beautiful Butterfly landed right on my windowsill recently – we
never have many of them around, so this one really surprised me.

Next in the gallery posts from last year is the Bugspotting Gallery of 2015 with all the spiders, bumblebees flies and other six-to-eight legged creatures – so be advised that there are more than a few creepy-crawlies in there! Although the new camera proved to be exceptionally good with macro photography, I didn’t get too many chances to try this out, but I had a resident garden cross spider for some time on the balcony and also managed some very nice bumblebee shots. Click on the preview photo above or on the link below to go to the gallery itself and you can also visit my Google+ Profile or the Animal Gallery Collection to find the parallel G+ version for easier viewing.

BUGSPOTTING 2015

I actually wanted to take a photo of this yellow Ladybug ambling around on my finger, but then it proceeded to take off, so I only got this slightly blurry photo :-).

The last photo for now of the Garden Cross Spider inhabiting my balcony – although it is still around even now and looking quite well fed!

The Garden Cross Spider on my balcony made up for this year’s lack of jumping spiders :-).

Dinner is served :-).

Finally a view of the spider’s fascinating cross design!

Dinner is served – it looks like it got one of those pesky wasps! :-)

The Garden Cross Spider has now been happily spinning its web in the leftover tomato plants for nearly two weeks. Although I wonder why it’s always hanging upside down!