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#beetles

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Some of today's bugs - a rather feisty sawfly (Tenthredo mesomela?) on nettles, a common drone fly (Eristalis tenax) on a bramble flower, another Rutpela maculata beetle, this time scaling the rhododendrons - and a tiny little longhorn beetle (Grammoptera ruficornis?).

(These are edited highlights from perhaps 20 minutes with my camera!)

#beetles #sawflies #hoverflies #insects #macrophotography #Derbyshire
Shiny, sleek black and apple-green sawfly with folded wings on a spiky-edged nettle leaf.
A rather round and fuzzy hoverfly, looking somewhere between a honey bee and a bumble bee, timidly sipping at the centre of a white-pink bramble flower.
Stripy black and yellow beetle intrepidly scaling a large pink petal of a rhododendron flower, ready to sample the nectar within.
Dainty little brown longhorn beetle on a pink-white bramble petal.
#derbyshire
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