UFO in the garden

Most days when I’m looking around the garden I’ll see stuff and I’ve no idea what they are. Thankfully the internet exists and I can usually find out with a reasonable degree of certainty rather quickly. Be it the bird call app I’ve blogged about before or webapps that attempt to id plants and insects from a photo.

I love how much easier it is these days. I remember when I was a kid I would always get frustrated by / become bored with something because I didn’t know something and had no means to discover the answer.

I would have been in my element if was able to identify the insect, or plant, or rock without traipsing down to the village library to find their one book on the subject was out. Don’t get me wrong, I love libraries, but for this, they are rubbish.

Under your nose

It’s remarkable that I’ve never noticed one of these little things before given how comment they must be.

I had no idea that this is what a ladybird larva looked like.

No idea, maybe.

Then there’s this.

Looks perhaps like a damselfly of some kind. It was on a leaf of the apple tree but I spooked it.

I will make an effort to figure this out tomorrow.