A selection of insect photographs from the UK Gardening gallery

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I've been taking photographs of plants in and around my garden since I bought my first digital camera in 2001 (three years after I has started this website). So whilst wondering where to keep the pictures in the days before Flickr and cloud storage, I thought I'd create a little database of them on my UK Gardening website, and I've been taking photos and adding them to my site ever since.

Below is a very small, random selection of photographs I have taken over the last 26 years. To see a larger version of a photograph, click the image. You'll then be able to scroll left and right through the current selection.

Caterpillar eating hollyhock flower

Belted hoverfly Volucella zonaria

Woodlouse

Nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

Ladybird (Harlequin) - Harmonia axyridis

Maybug, cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha)

Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Chile Black'

Juvenile european garden spiders (Araneus diadematus)

Bumble bee

Greenfly on lupin

Hawthorn shield/stink bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale)

Belted hoverfly Volucella zonaria. One of the largest flies of Britain. It mimics a hornet or wasp, but is harmless to humans. The adults are great polinators and their larvae are believed to eat wasp grubs.

Geometra papilionaria Large Emerald moth

Ladybird (Harlequin) - Harmonia axyridis

Hawthorn shield/stink bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) on clematis

Enallagma cyathigerum (Common blue damselfly)

Ladybird (2 spot) on sweet pea

Bright-line brown-eye moth (Lacanobia oleracea) caterpillars eating tomato leaves

Bumble bee

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