Bug Bounty

It was a good day for bug hunting. My best find was a lovely green rose chafer beetle. I watched as it sort of sniffed the air and guessed that it was about to take off. It launched with such a loud whirr that I wobbled and missed the shot.

Those impressive erect antennae belong to a male oak eggar moth. These moths got that name because they spin egg-shaped cocoons that look like an acorns.

Also featured is the wonderfully named parasitic wasp Gasteruption jaculator, a female Roesel's bush cricket with a damaged leg, a meadow brown butterfly and a meadow grasshopper.