Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The welcome sunshine this morning brought a new species to the garden in the form of a skipper butterfly. Research reveals that the hooked antennae point towards it being the Large Skipper rather than the Small Skipper (which is not necessarily smaller) or the Essex Skipper (not enough bling).
A tiny fluffy white fly was on the wing in the garden this afternoon; I put my hand out towards it and it landed on my finger. I thought at first it was infested with mites, but research on the web tells me that it was probably a Woolly Aphid. I s'pose gardeners will have heard of it.
// posted by Christine @ 9:22 AM 
