Macro compilation

This compilation of macro photo’s were all taken across the 2 days of last weekend at HIWT’s Blashford Lakes nature reserve, and highlight the diverity of insects and arachnids that may be found a here.

I have decided to show them in the order I found them instead of grouping by type.

First up bovering a hover.

This years first damsel head shot, eye to eye with a Common Blue Damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum). Here’s hoping this is the first of many of these cheeky chappies.

Next a new specie of weevil for me, this Leaf-rolling weevil (Byctiscus populi).

A Common Malachite Soft-Winged Flower Beetle (Malachius bipustulatus).

Profile & face on.

Next a colourful unindentified micro moth, which was about 3-4mm in length.

This reserve boasts lots of flies, and here a couple from the Saturday.

This one is the last of the Saturday’s visit, and a possible member of the Longhorn Beetle family (Cerambycidae).

Now onto Sunday’s pics, and first a young Speckled bush cricket (Leptophyes punctatissima).

A second type of weevil, a Cionus hortulanus weevil.

Some of the moth caterpillars are also very colourful, like this Mottled Umber moth caterpillar (Erannis defoliaria).

Next another type of weevil, a pair of mating Common Leaf weevils (Phyllobius pyri).

Here is one of the arachnids, a White Crab Spider (Misumena vatia).

A possible Sawfly

The fourth and final differnt type of weevil, the Nut Weevil (Curculio nucum).

Finally, a pair of mating Flesh-flies (Sarcophaga carnaria)

Hope you enjoyed them.