Photo Gallery - Insect Photographs

 This is a collection of my own photographs including ones I have used as references in my project. I have taken a lot of photographs of insects over time, but these are my more recent ones which were mostly taken locally over summer. I have identified as many as I can and written where I found them in the caption.

Grasshopper, garden

Hover fly on watering can, garden

Silver Y moth, home

Snail, garden

Jumping spider, home

Shining a lamp at the window to attract bugs - moths, may flies, mosquitos, crane flies, lacewings, etc.

Orange Underwing

Clear butterfly at zoo, Skegness

Garden Spider, home

Jumping spider, garden

Horse Leach, Attenborough Nature Reserve

Small tortoiseshell, garden

House spider outdoors? Cromford

Shield bug, garden

Cockchafer beetle, Attenborough

Violet ground beetle, Bramcote

Peacock Butterfly Caterpillar, Cromford

Shield bug hatchlings, garden

Shedding for the first time

Hornet, home

Unidentified moth, home

Weevil, garden

Swollen-thighed Beetle, garden 

Baby snail, garden

Lesser stag beetle, garden 

Cicada, France

Stag beetle, France

Cinnabar Moth, home

Jumping Spider, home

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