...and just because they are good photos, here are a couple of butterflies, photographed on the Croft today. They illustrate a point about butterfly diet - nectar, and rotting fruit... the butterfly equivalent of a land of wine and honey.
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| As yellow as butter |
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| Cherry licker |
Back down here on earth after all the politicking, here are a couple of splendid bugs, seen today:
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| Turquoise Flying Thing |
This first one might be related to Cetonia aurata, but frankly I have very little idea. Any suggestions, welcome.
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| Ding dung |
The second is Plebejus argus, I think, sucking up some amino acids from a nice mature pile of donkey dung. Delicious.
But together, they show that we are not having a Silent Spring; no-one is spraying chemicals anywhere near here, and the bugs thrive.
