Archive Bugspotting

A Fly and its Shadow


Somehow, it seemed to be puzzled by its own shadow…

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Bumblebee Helipad II


Hanging on is the only option! :-)

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Bumblebee Helipad


The Bumblebees love to use the Zinnias as landing platforms – and staying a couple of minutes!

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Revenge of Crossy Spider


Two days ago, our “own” Garden Cross Spider showed up at the same
spot it had spun its web before. It looks like it has been eating well!

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Crossy Spider at Large


I noticed this particular Garden Cross Spider not on my balcony, but
outside in a neighbourhood front yard. It looked very well fed!

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Crossy Spider Returns III


Lunch for my resident Garden Cross Spider – this was on August 29 and the next day it had vanished. But today it showed up in the same place again, looking even bigger and stronger :-).

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Crossy Spider Returns II


Garden Cross Spider with some lunch – I guess the web was in exactly the right corner!

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Crossy Spider Returns!


For a couple of days last week, I had a Garden Cross Spider take up residence in one of the tomato bushes. It had to rebuild its web lots of times, but it was there for quite a long time!

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Among the Raindrops


I’m not sure what this is, but it was expertly navigating around the raindrops :-).

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Bee on Break


I’m not sure what sort of bee this is, but it’s not a wasp –
the bees are only showing up to feed on the sunflowers!

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