Insect Bonanza

[yourlibrarian]

Never saw a bunch of butterflies clustered together like this before, much less so preoccupied that photos were possible.





I saw this dragonfly buzzing around some plants. It was hard to catch but as it kept circling back to land every time I approached I finally got something relatively close up.





A praying mantis has been hanging out on one of our plants for most of the summer. My partner dubbed her Harriet after Harry in Death in Paradise.

Comments

[pameladean]

Yeah, there's a lot of evanescent detail in dragonflies that is very hard to capture in a photograph. But as you say, having one even sit still long enough is a boon. And that species is very distinctive, so perfectly identifiable even if the photo isn't the reality.

It's nice for a garden to be good eating at more than one level.

P.