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  • Next installment using the ridiculously cheep digital microscope. This is a lacewing, Chrysoperla carnea. It's the only one in the UK to overwinter as an adult although the other giveaway is the series of hairs on the veins in it's wings. Not sure of the magnification but I recon the field of view is about 1 mm in both images.

  • Thanks! Been working on desensitizing myself to spiders by taking some close up photos of them recently. This one is Nuctenea umbraatica, the Walnut Orbweb Spider. It's a nightime hunter of moths hiding away by day in cracks in bark and wooden fences - hence it's characteristic flattened apperance.

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