Little critters

It turns out that Companion Crone likes invertebrates AKA bugs.

As it happens, on a recent stroll to see Kairos, I spotted a few critters of that ilk.

First, the butterflies.

The first row shows a gatekeeper; then the underwing of someone brighly coloured on the other side... must have been a peacock; green-veined white; and at the bottom a ringlet.

Dragonflies. These I think are common darters.

They are all common - even expanding their ranges... I'm no less pleased to see them.

Likewise, this one, in the garden. A speckled wood.

I was also delighted to see this chap in the garden.

And there's a video... with an interesting opening and some dragonfly slowmo...

Another, larger, dragonfly came a week later. I don't know what this is.

This one is a hoverfly, not, as I first thought, a wasp.

But this is the best. The spider was off somewhere, but isn't this stunning?

On spiders, two of the long-legged-small-bodied ones [Cellar spiders, I think you'll find. - Ed.] were sitting like filigree sculptures of themselves in a corner of the bathroom ceiling for a few days. I wondered at their relationship. Then, there was one. That one has been alone for the last two days. In the same place. I was feeling a bit sorry for the lonely one, thinking the other had gone off roaming. But it turns out that, in hard times, they'll eat each other. So perhaps I should be feeling sorry for the one that has disappeared.