Wasp great diving beetle on white background
I’ve been playing with white backgrounds with my pond creature photography and I’m getting some OK results so far. Here is a Wasp (great) Diving Beetle.
Slow motion video of wasps chewing wood and taking off
A little while ago I spotted a number of wasps chewing wood so I filmed them at 1/4th of normal speed using my Pentax WG-2. I filmed a number of clips and put the best bits together for this video In this video the first clip is at 1/4th normal speed, as is the second.…
Wasp spider wide angle
A wide angle of a wasp spider from a couple of days ago.
Large velvet ant – Mutilla europaea
Back at the start of September I was walking around KWT Oare Marshes Nature Reserve in North Kent with a couple of friends when one spotted this creature running across the path. I recognised it imediately as one of the velvet ants, the female of a type of solitary wingless wasp. I had always wanted…
Scarce chaser dragonfly, greek marsh frog, mammoth wasp and beautiful demosielle
On a trip to a reservoir in kefalonia we saw some interesting stuff. There were scarce chaser dragonflies flying around. There were greek marsh frogs. This mammoth wasp was on a flower. A blue tailed damselfly perched nicely. As did this beautiful demoiselle.
Black belly and wasp diving beetles (Dytiscus semisulcatus and D. circumflexus)
I’ve been catching up with some editing including some pond creatures and I came across probably my best diving beetle images. I photographed 2 species that day, the black belly diving beetle Dytiscus semisulcatus. And the wasp diving beetle Dytiscus curcumflexus, named after the striped underside.
Wasp beetle and common crab spider
Back in May a wasp beetle was found and I got a few photos. It is a type of longhorn beetle that mimics a wasp to fool predators into thinking its dangerous. Also found was this common crab spider.
Marsh frogs, grass snake, common lizard and wasp spider
My final post from Rainham. The ‘other stuff.’ We saw 2 grass snakes, one of which I photographed. There were also a few wasp spiders, including one in a photographable position I got some nice photos of marsh frogs too And a nice one of a common lizard on the boardwalk.
Meadow and lesser marsh grasshoppers and a wasp spider
This evening I went for a quick walk around Wat Tyler CP and thought I’d check a wasp spider hotspot. Sure enough there were 3 webs with spider present. Only one was in a reasonable position for photography. They were eating the grasshoppers, like this lesser marsh grasshopper. And this meadow grasshopper. I got some…
Welcome to UK Wildlife Blog MK3
Well I’ve finally done it, I’ve gone and made my new website, something I’ve wanted to do for quite a while now. I’ve gone with wordpress for the whole website to start with and I still need to tweek a few things, add a photo here and a description there. The gallery is a temporary…