UK: may flowers, moths, and gall wasps

[spiralsheep]

- May flowers (but no mayflowers) and the lifecycles of lepidoptera and gall wasps: details in rollovers or click through to flickr.

Garden tiger moth, Arctia caja.



Horse chestnut tree flowers, Aesculus hippocastanum, and horse chestnut leaf-miner moth, Cameraria ohridella. :-(





True blue alkanet, Pentaglottis sempervirens.



Bushy wild forget-me-nots, Myosotis ? probably sylvatica, for comparison with the following close-up image of their relative small flowered forget-me-not, Myosotis stricta, seen in extreme close-up hiding down amongst the grass in the second cap.





Dandelions, ? who knows which species (not me) ?, because in their place they’re beautiful.



Oak apple galls, caused by a gall wasp, Biorhiza pallida, sharing a tree with currant galls, caused by a gall wasp, Andricus quercusbaccarum, seen in close-up in the second cap.





Wild rose hips hanging on from last year.

Comments

[shirebound]

Ooooh, the horse chestnut tree flowers are just gorgeous.

[spiralsheep]

A large tree full of those flowers is a spectacle not to be missed but then, if one leans in and looks closely, the individual flower spikes and even the individual flowers on those spikes are just as flamboyantly marvellous. :-)