This butterfly had the sunlight shining on it giving a look as though its wings were very fragile, almost like a tissue. And you can see they’re looking ragged as though torn or worn away.
Category: Insects
Butterflies at the park
Another butterfly – saw a real lot of these flying around everywhere, alighting on trees, fences, flowers, the ground and sometimes flying in twos – I was never quick enough to get a shot of two together.
Butterflies at the park
Back at one of my favourite places to walk, Lysterfield Lake Park is brimming with butterflies and dragonflies at this time of the year. This is one of the butterflies I saw when walking last weekend. It had beautiful markings under its wings whereas most seem to be rather pale in comparison I have a…
Butterfly on a wire
By now you’ll know I have 4 favourite places to walk: Lysterfield Lake Park, Kallista trails, the roads around my home in Selby and my own property. There’s always something to see through the eyes of my camera. As I walked at Lysterfield yesterday I saw lots of butterflies – it’s hard to take a…
Colourful damselflies
Doesn’t matter how long a lens I have, there’s always another that could take a closer shot! Oh well. With my trusty and fav 70-300mm I took this shot of dragonflies who don’t stay still for very long. I had no idea there was such a variety of colours but here you can see there…
The Christmas Beetle
Christmas beetles have vibrant colours and the adults emerge close to the Christmas period. The larvae are white and C-shaped, similar to those of flower chafers and stag beetles. From December to January adult Christmas beetles mate and lay eggs into the soil surface. I was out walking in Lysterfield Lake Park and noticed something…
Shiny bug
You see some interesting bugs in the garden when you actively go out looking at anything and everything.
Millipedes and Gum Leaf
I was out for a walk a little while ago and noticed all these millipedes on the one leaf gorging themselves. Not seen that before.
Closeup of a bee
I was pleased with this shot – the bees are out in full force now and are easy prey for a camera, providing you’re willing to follow them around and be patient for the right moment.
Baluk Willam Reserve
I was practising with my macro lens. The shots aren’t as sharp as I like – obviously got a lot more practising to do. This is of a large bull ant on a flower.
More insects
There weren’t just the dragonflies though. I spied these two as I walked slowly along paths. I love looking for something different – things that people would normally miss because they’re engrossed in conversations, or their own thoughts or something. I know the first is a beetle but not sure what the other is.
Yellow Dragonflies
As I walked along the tracks at the park there were a lot of dragonflies flying along keeping me company. Sometimes they were fly ahead and then stop, waiting for me to catch up. One time one stopped and faced me waiting. My husband thought they might be waiting for insects that flew up as…