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.

Phymatocera aterrima (Solomon's seal sawfly) larvae

Bibio marci (St. Mark's Fly)

Stag beetle (Adult)

Wooly aphid on beech leaf

Ladybird larvae

Aglais io Peacock butterfly (European peacock)

Ladybird (7 spot)

Hawthorn shield/stink bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale) on clematis

Enallagma cyathigerum (Common blue damselfly)

Nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

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.

Ladybird (Harlequin) - Harmonia axyridis

Geometra papilionaria Large Emerald moth

Ladybird (Harlequin) - Harmonia axyridis

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

Crab spider (Misumena vatia - female)

Red admiral on Sedum spectabile syn. Hylotelephium spectabile (ice plant, stonecrop)

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

Geometra papilionaria Large Emerald moth

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