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.
Category: Insects
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…