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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2020 18:53:36 GMT
wonderful little beasties
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 3, 2020 18:57:34 GMT
I havent quite got my eye in yet this year....I'm constantly competing with the dog...he sees bumblebees as a tasty snack unfortunately.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 3, 2020 18:59:36 GMT
I was lucky with my last batch because the bees loved those flowers so much, they were absolutely rooted to the spot. That is rare.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2020 16:25:17 GMT
For once I got a butterfly!
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Post by mossie on Jul 6, 2020 19:27:17 GMT
The dreaded Cabbage White, when I was a child my parents encouraged me to kill them, little heathen. Actually their caterpillars can be very destructive in the vegetable garden and they love cabbage leaves, hence the name. It is upsetting to find one cooked with your cabbage for dinner, my mother used to tell me not to make such a fuss, and feel happy that I was getting some extra meat!!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2020 19:58:47 GMT
I think that the cabbage butterfly is the only kind that I have ever seen in northern France. They were a scourge in my grandparents' garden. I can't speak for southern France.
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Post by lugg on Jul 7, 2020 18:35:01 GMT
Congrats K2 .....pretty non the less and by the time it has reached the butterfly stage it causes no harm.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2020 22:34:49 GMT
I beg to differ. That pretty white little fluttering thing is busy laying the eggs that hatch into its destructive young.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 8, 2020 10:02:44 GMT
I can't say the small white butterflies I see occasionally are the cabbage raiders, but once a year when my cycad puts out a new frond of spike leaves, a million caterpillars hatch out and in days have destroyed all but a few leaves. The next thing I notice is dozens of small orange butterflies hovering on the cycad. These little bastards are ensuring the next caterpillar eggs to hatch at the exact time more new leaves appear. So I agree Bixa - those sweet little delicate creatures are the devil in disguise!
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Post by lugg on Jul 9, 2020 19:19:57 GMT
I beg to differ. That pretty white little fluttering thing is busy laying the eggs that hatch into its destructive young. Ah yes of course I had conveniently forgotten that
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Post by lugg on Jul 12, 2020 18:22:02 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2020 20:46:22 GMT
Whoooo, Lugg ~ outstanding bee captures!!
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Post by htmb on Jul 12, 2020 22:03:08 GMT
Wonderful photos!
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 13, 2020 3:50:45 GMT
Impressive!
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 13, 2020 6:46:43 GMT
Stunning pictures!
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Post by tod2 on Jul 13, 2020 8:02:29 GMT
Lugg your photos are completion worthy! And I can see 1st Prize written all over them. The South African magazine COUNTRY. LIFE runs a section called Image Club. An ex -UK resident Dale Morrisis is a regular contributor. His images can be seen on. www.geckoeye.comIf you decide to give it a go you can email your images to: imageclub@caxton or enter online at : www.countrylife.co.zaThe Prize money is not huge - R1,000 first prize and so on. Just the fun of our Lugg winning would be so special.
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Post by lugg on Jul 13, 2020 18:16:04 GMT
Thank you all and Tod thank you for the link -I will have a look... not for these in particular , but I have a couple of photos taken in SA that I am really proud of, not sure they are of the required quality but I love them.
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Post by lugg on Jul 17, 2020 9:40:28 GMT
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Post by mossie on Jul 17, 2020 10:33:25 GMT
If that is anything to go by you will romp to first place in a competition
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 17, 2020 10:37:03 GMT
I doubt if there is any way to know if bees are colour blind, so we don't even know if they appreciate these dazzling flowers.
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Post by tod2 on Jul 17, 2020 10:59:31 GMT
Stunning Lugg ! Yes, I also wonder if the bee sees it in colour - I believe they do.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 17, 2020 15:53:36 GMT
Not only a wonderful photograph, but a great illustration of those delicate wings working furiously to lift that relatively bulky body straight up and away.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 17, 2020 17:19:19 GMT
Goodness Lugg...those are SUPERB! I love your bees...gailardias are bee magnets...they really like echinacea and heleniums too.. atm they like my veronicastrum...the bumblebee on the left flew right past my ear....
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Post by lugg on Jul 17, 2020 18:01:18 GMT
That is so delicately lovely Cheery.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 17, 2020 19:00:01 GMT
Not just a beautiful picture, Cheery, but an amazing capture getting her coming straight at you like that.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 17, 2020 20:22:08 GMT
Straight at her ear, you mean!
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Post by tod2 on Jul 18, 2020 9:47:39 GMT
Brilliant photo Cheery! Proof that bees ( maybe other insects as well) fly with their legs hanging down. No aircraft-like, and bird-like tucking away the undercarriage! We have a regular number of storks flying in to our garden for breadcrumbs and one in particular flies with one leg dangling down and the other straight up under its tail feathers. The leg hanging down is white with bird poo so it looks as if it has been injured. It doesn't limp however.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 24, 2020 10:30:49 GMT
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Post by tod2 on Jul 24, 2020 12:45:56 GMT
WoW Mick! What a lucky photo opportunity. Do you know what the butterfly name is? Got to be Zebra something….
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Post by mickthecactus on Jul 24, 2020 13:03:18 GMT
WoW Mick! What a lucky photo opportunity. Do you know what the butterfly name is? Got to be Zebra something…. I'm told it's a tiger moth which seems very appropriate.
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