An Evening Stroll

 

I needed to get rid of the cobwebs in my mind and went for an evening stroll to the grasshopper nursery. Being outdoors immediately fills me with peace and everything begins to makes sense and falls into its place. 

Accompanied by a lot of bird sing-song wandered along the stone wall, checking for anything crawling or buzzing. I noticed that slowly, some of the 'old friends' are making a re-appearance:

The weevils! In various sizes and colours. Very inquisitve little guys. If they see me with the lens they meet it face on and follow it if I move slightly. They are great fun to watch and right now it is their mating season. 

These green ones are found mostly on nettles. They use their leaves for shelter and in the early mornings you can find many of them with their heads burries in the base of the nettle leaves! 'If I can't see it (predetors), it can't see me!'

 'Hello there!'

The dock beetle's mating season has begun a month ago, resulting in many a pregnant female looking for places to lay their eggs. Another month or so and the dock plants will have been eated away. Perfect!

 This slug was quite brave, being in the evening sun, on top of a stone wall ...

 Eventually I reached the grasshopper nursery where I spent some considerable time enjoying their coming and going. I even noticed some of their skins on blades of grass. You can read more about them here.

Thank you for reading!