sometimes, I try and illustrate the living-things I encounter to help fully observe and memorize their identifying features.

This is the latest such illustration, some galls I saw this year:

top row: ram's-horn & spangle gall wasps, on oaks

bottom row: beech gall midge, on beech; willow gall sawfly, on willow

#art #botany #entomology #wasp #midge #sawfly #biology

03/09/2025 - Finally the rain stopped for the day so we headed out for an evening stroll to the bottle bank and shop. I stopped to look at the young birch trees growing by the side of the road. A very big green caterpillar caught my eye. What butterfly or moth is this going to be I thought. Turns out none as it's the larvae of a birch sawfly, Britain's largest sawfly. Nice find and a new bug for me. I like bugs.

#EveningWalk #Sawfly #Insects

Allotment holders probably won't agree but I think this insect is beautiful. Turnip Sawfly (Athalia rosae).

#insect #sawfly

I
saw
a sawfly,
sawn by a fly,
seen by me, flying by
seen by a sawfly,
sawn by a fly

#saw
#sawfly
#fly
#poetry

Rose sawfly larvae, (Arge pagana I think). The one furthest left looks very happy 🙂

#sawfly #insects #entomology #UKWildlife