Lapsed physicist ... entangled with Norfolk plants, birds and bugs ... superposition of pie and canary ... below average middle order batter on summer Saturdays ... enjoy a bit of art, bit of history ... who will rid me of this turbulent X
Gary
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Small moth that behaves like a butterfly ... feeding on meadow buttercup with wings raised ... identification tricky ... could be twin spot carpet Mesotype didymata or grass rivulet Perizoma albulata ... or others ... @norfolkmoths.bsky.social
Think it should be patch.boss.lion in w3w
Mayfly are fascinating ... Carl Linnaeus placed them in genus Ephemera ... Greek not his usual latin ... meaning for a day ... short lived things appear to have been a fascination for ancient Greeks ... including for Aristotle who observed Mayfly ... 2000 year on ...
Nothing more exquisite than a mayfly ...
Worked hard to identify this as the nymph stage of a blue shield bug Zicrona caerulea ... predating on an unidentified larva @norfolknats.bsky.social ... spectacular colours
Nurseryweb spider and egg-sac ... amazing
Not sure about these fish ... looking like trout and behaving like spawning ... but in the wrong place at the wrong time? @norfolknats.bsky.social
