Insects and Spiders

There's a patch of grass in front of my house that the council usually mow down, they haven't this year so you can hear grasshoppers in it when you walk past. Haven't heard that noise in years.

The cat is also a fan of hiding in the grass to ambush pigeons, like some big cat docu cosplay.

Garden has been full of commas and red admirals today

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Poor spiders. Ugly bastards.

I’m right here, fam. Right here.

Mayfly enjoying its one day out in the sun.

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And also this guy who flew straight into my face.

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This shiny little bastard

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@Eejit Love them - they are everywhere at the moment. It's a Thick-legged Flower Beetle. Only the male has legs like Andre Greipel!

https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs/bug-directory/thick-legged-flower-beetle/

legs like Andre Greipel!

Did you mean Robert Förstemann?

Compared to his, Greipel's legs are slim.

Good knowledge!

Thicc legged flower boi

What's this? Chilling out by the pond. It'd massive, about 3 inches...

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Dragonfly nymph.

One ugly boi. 😎

Just spotted this little buddy hanging out at the bottom of my garden

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who's in charge here? can I post pictures of scorpions and worms?

Spiders have already been posted.

So the family arachnid is already in represent.

Worms are a push imo.

My guess would be annelids are all right but no to nematodes

Saw this today. A scorpion fly

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It's a spy fly! 😎

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Haha!

If you find a scorpion in your garden or local park that I would like to see.

There are scorpions on the Isle of Sheppey where I'm from. They live down by the docks. http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2009/07/09/scorpion_sheerness_video_feature.shtml

You make it sound like they are drunken reprobates. "Hanging out down by the water front making mischief". They haven't made it far since the 18th century.....

They're one of the least frightening things on Sheppey.

A peacock caterpillar on every nettle leaf on the field behind me. Less nettles, more butterflies win:win.

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We have a spider in our bedroom that has given birth to a load of baby spiderlings but they haven’t really moved from the one spot and we can’t imagine they are getting much to eat where they are.

Anyone know if there’s anything we can do to help this brood of little moth catchers thrive?

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Not a spider expert, but I think the hatchlings don't need to eat anything until they've gone through the first molt. After that they will be hungry.

Also, there's plenty there for them to eat - they'll eat each other as willingly as they'll eat anything else.

Lots out in the damp sunshine today, but most of it moving around too quickly in the breeze. There are loads of bush crickets in our smoke tree.

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