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 27 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.

Osteospermum 'Glistening White' syn. Dimorphotheca pluvialis (Cape marigold, Cape daisy, Rain daisy, African daisy) with hover fly

Juvenile european garden spiders (Araneus diadematus)

Vine weevil - adult

Chrysolina americana (rosemary beetle) on lavender flower stem

Summer chafer (Amphimallon solstitialis)

Bumble bee

Pale tussock (Calliteara pudibunda) caterpillar

Large white, cabbage white (Pieris brassicae) caterpillar

Stag beetle (Larva,grub)

Enallagma cyathigerum (Common blue damselfly)

Aglais io Peacock butterfly (European peacock)

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.