Orange Hawkweed. One of my favourite plants. If I had a lawn I'd like this to be amongst swathes of Mouse-ear Hawkweed please. #wildflowerhour
What seems to be Xanthogramma stackelbergi, a hoverfly new to me and new to the UK in 2012. Seen in Essex earlier this week.
Mother Shipton isn't usually this obliging.
The native Meadow Cranesbill and garden escape Pyrenean Cranesbill. #wildflowerhour
Two new spiders for me in Essex today. Episinus maculipes and Parasteatoda lunata.
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Not the right kind of weather to be monitoring a heat-loving, 3mm long jumping spider. No sign of Euophrys petrensis but its larger cousin Aelurillus v-insignitus did make a brief appearance.
Old ladies get arrested for protesting genocide and farage gets away with inciting violence.
Yeah, that's 2 tier policing right there.