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Blackbird egg shell. So there’s new life in my garden somewhere.

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Today I rescued a large red damselfly from the polytunnel. It sat on my hands for ages.

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Little frog, came to help me in the orchard.

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Clouded buff moth

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A tiny little crab
It’s sat on the middle segment of my little finger

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Wow, SC!

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Female sparrow hawk. Plus a not very happy Male house sparrow. Unfortunately picture didn't come out great.

Found this little fella in my Chilli tunnel.

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After looking through my books & the web. I couldn’t find it.

So I sent the photo here 

https://www.royensoc.co.uk/identifying-insects

I got a response very quickly. It’s a parasitic tachinid fly, Tachina grossa. 

(02-07-2020, 08:56 PM)Small chilli Wrote: [ -> ]Found this little fella in my Chilli tunnel.



After looking through my books & the web. I couldn’t find it.

So I sent the photo here 

https://www.royensoc.co.uk/identifying-insects

I got a response very quickly. It’s a parasitic tachinid fly, Tachina grossa. 

Superb photo!

(02-07-2020, 08:56 PM)Small chilli Wrote: [ -> ]Found this little fella in my Chilli tunnel.



After looking through my books & the web. I couldn’t find it.

So I sent the photo here 

https://www.royensoc.co.uk/identifying-insects

I got a response very quickly. It’s a parasitic tachinid fly, Tachina grossa. 

If it’s parasitic does that mean he’s Bad News