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Post by Rosefriend on Apr 13, 2008 14:42:24 GMT
Hey Amo - pleased that someone else has them - we get so many here and they can do so much damage. This was one last year that my OH picked up.... it was half dead but he doesn't mind...I do!!  RF |
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Post by oldmoleskins on Apr 22, 2008 19:09:47 GMT
Now then, bearing in mind I don't have a pond (yet) and the cattle trough I found it in is three feet off the ground, where did this skater come from?  OM. |
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Post by Tig on Apr 22, 2008 19:18:12 GMT
He flew in OM - they can grow wings to get from one lot of water to another (evidently!) I love the way you can see the water 'bend' under its weight - smashing piccie  Tig |
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Post by oldmoleskins on Apr 22, 2008 19:31:30 GMT
He flew in OM - they can grow wings to get from one lot of water to another (evidently!) I love the way you can see the water 'bend' under its weight - smashing piccie Tig Bum choice for a holiday flight destination, it will be a lonely and precarious life - I dip my watering cans in there... OM. |
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Post by Amo on Apr 22, 2008 20:55:56 GMT
Where'd it go, where'd it go!?!?!?!?
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Post by Tig on Apr 22, 2008 22:29:18 GMT
;D I reckon it's a bachelor pad
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Post by Weeterrier on Apr 23, 2008 11:35:53 GMT
This was a big one.   |
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Post by Tig on Apr 23, 2008 15:46:04 GMT
 I hate big spiders!! Lovely photo though WT x Tig
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Post by oldmoleskins on Apr 24, 2008 16:32:56 GMT
Where'd it go, where'd it go!?!?!?!? The 'bum choice' was to choose my trough in the first place, Amo - though I haven't used it for dipping since... Still skating around - I rather hope it's a female out laying eggs. I'd like a colony... OM. |
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Post by Amo on Apr 24, 2008 21:12:05 GMT
Just for Tigs!!!  ;D And it's one from last year.  Can't remember if I've put it on this forum before or another one  |
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Post by Tig on Apr 24, 2008 22:24:42 GMT
Don't mind 'em so much if they are in the garden - it's the ones that insist on staying in the house that bother me!!! They can't half run fast ;D  x Tig
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Post by roan on Apr 25, 2008 2:10:33 GMT
The Gardener's Friend! A nice Praying Mantis after a good feed of Aphids! ;D  He wasn't too impressed with the camera though! ;D  |
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Post by Amo on Apr 25, 2008 6:05:31 GMT
Fab Roan! they do have an indignant look about then, don't they!!! I know they are about in Devon and Cornwall over here and they are supposed to be coming along the south coast I believe.
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Post by Weeterrier on Apr 25, 2008 8:34:04 GMT
That second photo is so cute Roan. ;D
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Post by Ladygardener on Apr 27, 2008 12:01:59 GMT
amazing pic that 2nd one Roan, it's like something from another planet
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Post by Susie Snowdrop on Apr 30, 2008 17:56:41 GMT
This little fellow was minute, not sure what he is though!   S x |
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Post by Weeterrier on May 1, 2008 8:27:47 GMT
Looks like a tiny wee spider ?
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Post by Dutchy on May 1, 2008 10:09:08 GMT
Red Velvet Mite ? ( bigger version of the red spidermite (3 mm ) but better to have.)
Said to be upholding the good health in your garden soil.
Roan boy what a beast.
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Post by Tig on May 7, 2008 15:14:28 GMT
This was having a rest on the fatsia in the sunshine   x Tig |
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Post by Shrubrose on May 7, 2008 17:34:46 GMT
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Post by Tig on May 7, 2008 18:41:45 GMT
Thanks Shrub (do you think anyone has noticed I have a new camera? ;D) x Tig
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Post by Weeterrier on May 7, 2008 19:29:38 GMT
Looks like it's definitely having a snooze there Tig! Lovely pics.  I love its gorgeous golden fur stole ;D  |
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Post by Ruthie on May 8, 2008 21:01:42 GMT
 for the bee. Do you by any chance have a new camera Shrub? ;D
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Post by Shrubrose on May 9, 2008 6:31:57 GMT
I dont but Tig does SR! ;D
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Post by Tig on May 9, 2008 10:50:09 GMT
I sure have ;D And when I spotted this just now I couldn't resist. This was in the tray holding my polyanthus seedlings, how it got there is anybodies guess? I think it is a water boatman, though not sure, because when it flipped itself over it didn't appear to have enough long legs?   x Tig |
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Post by Shrubrose on May 9, 2008 17:45:32 GMT
Fabulous pics Tig! I had to get my pond book out to have a nosey. Upshot - nothing resembling that in it. Certainly doesn't look like a water boatman - they're longer in the body, more oval than round whilst your little chap is more rounded I would say. Looks like one of the diving beetles but more than that I cannot tell!
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Post by oldmoleskins on May 10, 2008 5:41:59 GMT
I sure have ;D ... how it got there is anybodies guess? I think it is a water boatman, though not sure, because when it flipped itself over it didn't appear to have enough long legs? x Tig Does look like a diving beetle of some sort as Shrub says - how big? maybe a young 'boatman'? Do you 'dip' a watering can in anything to have transported it? OM. |
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Post by Tig on May 10, 2008 15:00:34 GMT
It was about half inch long OM, and yes I do use the water butts to fill the watering can, but with the rose on? I can't find a diving beetle that looks like it in any of my books - but there are only two shown in them!! It does say that they fly at night and I am not far from marshland, so perhaps it flew in Tig |
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Post by Ruthie on May 10, 2008 19:13:39 GMT
I dont but Tig does SR! ;D OK I guess I wasn't paying proper attention! Perhaps you should get a new camera Shrub. I'm posting my water boatman on this thread for comparison. I wonder if your one is a whirligig beetle? Water boatman..........  |
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Post by Shrubrose on May 11, 2008 16:04:52 GMT
You could be right SR about Tig's being a whirligig. Mine are a good bit smaller than half an inch though  |
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Can't remember if I've put it on this forum before or another one 
