Many things flying in the garden on this warm & sunny April afternoon 🌞
Including lots of these dock bugs (Coreus marginatus; 🇩🇪 Saumwanze, among many names), which flash their otherwise hidden bright red wings when buzzing around.
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This one wears its red more prominently, also in both its Latin & German names.
This a hypericum rhopalid (Rhopalus subrufus; 🇩🇪 Rötliche Glasflügelwanze). Very fidgety – didn't want to pose at all.
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And finally for now, the great slapstick comedian of the garden, the varied carpet beetle (Anthrenus verbasci; 🇩🇪 Museumskäfer or Wollkrautblütenkäfer).
This little fellow must've been drunk on the pollen & nectar that's now available. It flipped on its back spontaneously, & when I helped it up, it flew to the edge of the tulip & then fell off 😬
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Mark McCaughrean
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