Allotment Safari 2018

We have previously made reference to the wealth of different wildlife, bugs, beasties, friends and foe which exist on the allotment. It has been a little while since any photographs have been posted and a new gallery with a selection of images from 2017 and 2018 has now been added. We will try and add to this during the course of the year.

Last weekend, a couple of new beasties were captured, the first in quite unusual style. Derek approached yours truly on Saturday with a specimen on his van, and with a little direction he parked the vehicle which allowed one or two snaps to be taken (see image under).

Very small, extremely colourful, this spider is probably one of very few who have had the luxury of being chauffeur driven to a photo shoot and he duly posed.



The other new capture was this small blue butterfly which seemed to enjoy the solitude of my raised bed or rhubarb leaves. He / she is a Holly Blue.



The new gallery contains, bees, hover flies, ladybirds, spiders, a damsel fly, and various other beasties all of which have been taken on the plot, or it's surrounding borders.