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Crawling in the undergrowth.
Drone-fly (Click on image to read about crawling in the undergrowth).
Grasshopper (Click on image to see more).
Foxes, foxes and more foxes.
Marsh Fox ( Click image to read about foxes).
Muntjac Deer (click on image to see more).
Hover-fly (Click on image to see more).
Blue Tit (Click on image to see more).
Marsh Squirrel (Click on image to see more).
What a great shot, Mike.
As I’ve said before, you must have a very steady hand (or a great tripod). My butterfly images rarely look this good.
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Thanks Vicki. I have an uncanny ability to wait until the butterfly is perfectly still. 🙂
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Oh wonderful shot Mike 🙂 I’ve seen a few fluttering about but not settling anywhere!
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Around cuckoo flowers I bet!
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How did you know 😉
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The caterpillars hatch and feed on the developing seed pod. They are green and extremely hard to spot. Orange-tip caterpillars are cannibalistic, liable to eat another of their own species should they meet. Each caterpillar leaves its foodplant to overwinter as a chrysalis, probably in bushes and tall vegetation.
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Our local BC group does a lot of egg, chrysalis and caterpillar monitoring, as well monitoring the adults of course! Sadly with my mobility issues many of the routes are a bit inaccessible to me but I always get a kick out of the photos the others get 🙂 There are quite a number of cannibalistic caterpillars of both moths and butterflies! Lepidotera are such a fascinating and diverse species 🙂
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Thanks for the info, Sarah.
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No problem 🙂
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WOW! marvelous!!!
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🙂
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