Soldier Beetle on Iris Pseudacorus

cracking pic - fab detail on it

Thanks paul, but if you look again you'll see that almost everything EXCEPT the beetle is in focus!

looks good to me Karen - my camera can't pick them up that well close - there's a little ant or something too in the pic :):)

actually looking close a spider :D

Tis a wee money spider! ;))

Another insect identified, thank you. I like it when they are friendly:-)

I'm not good at zooming in on the insect shots, too much detail is scary!

lol...it is!

Fascinating ... I've not heard of, or seen, these insects before ... I learn something new every week on GoY ... lol!

I had never encountered them before we moved here Shirley. I think they must come in from the farm fields.

So long as they stay your side of Hadrian's wall . . . .

lol.....I think you probably have them down there too Shirley...but I hope you keep your lily beetles and hornets on your side! :))

: o )))

And my big green scary things that look like stick insects that are determined to climb on me! After July I do very little in the way of weeding because of those 'Things', and they come in the house when the windows are open. I will get Ella to post a pic next one we see and I will remember not to look at it! Wish they would go to Hadrian's wall and stay there.

Ugh! Yeuch! you can certainly keep them!! :))