Drama in the urban garden!

Just looking in our little pond to see what’s happening when I spot something that looked like a #damselfly dead on the surface.

Touched it and it moved so I lifted it out on my finger.

That’s when I noticed it had a very emaciated abdomen. With a dead spider hanging off it!

Edit (I’m stupid).

Mrs Runt pointed out that the damselfly had probably just emerged from the pond and that the exuvia was still hanging on. Doh!

#damselfly #entomologists #dramainthegarden #nature #wildlife #uk #norfolk #wymondham

The first track on my new #album was written as a theme tune for the sentiment against AI slop in the #FAWM Slack channel, where (for reasons which will remain obscure) tools like suno are referred to as cupcakes. Hates them, we does.

For the #entomologists out there: the buzzing noise that shifts from right to left and back is a slowed-down sample of a Death's-head hawkmoth, acherontia atropos. Because of course it is; that's how I roll.

https://headfirstonly.bandcamp.com/track/boots-up-cupcake

There is a change in the air, and pollinators are tirelessly collecting pollen.

https://www.pictorem.com/2436710/common-eastern-bumble-bee-on-flower/

#bee #insect #macro #art #artist #IrisRichadsonArt #wallart #artgifts #artprints #fallforart #buyintoart #ayearforart #entomophile #Entomologists #gardening #GardeningMastodon #beneficialinsect #pollinators

Those cute little skipper are tough to catch

https://www.pictorem.com/2436663/huron-sachem-on-purple-flower/

#insect #skipper #art #artist #IrisRichardsonArt #macro #photography #smallbusiness #ayearforart #buyintoart #fallforart #Wallart #artprints #entomophile #Entomologists
#SouthJersey #NewJerseyArtist