Comments on: Everything’s Coming Up… http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/ A Blog about walking, thinking about walking, reading about walking.......and maybe other stuff Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:20:56 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: beatingthebounds http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-1001 beatingthebounds Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:51:38 +0000 http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-1001 Hi guys - thanks for your comments and advice. Rob - I had the flt down as 'a cow-pat fly' but the photo in my Collins 'Complete British Insects' is not very helpful. I think that the second bee is a bumble bee Bombus Pratorum. I leave it to you to decipher the Latin. Hi guys – thanks for your comments and advice.
Rob – I had the flt down as ‘a cow-pat fly’ but the photo in my Collins ‘Complete British Insects’ is not very helpful.
I think that the second bee is a bumble bee Bombus Pratorum. I leave it to you to decipher the Latin.

]]> By: Ron Bloomquist http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-1000 Ron Bloomquist Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:33:39 +0000 http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-1000 Woo Hoo! You're back and I'm loving it!! Woo Hoo! You’re back and I’m loving it!!

]]> By: Rambling Rob http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-997 Rambling Rob Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:15:41 +0000 http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-997 A corner of rural England has its poet back on the beat - a very enjoyable read, Mark. Any idea on an id for that second bee? Only a snapped one of very similar colours - yellow-black-yellow-black-orange, going head to tail - on clover the other day and can't find what it is. Probably that means it's dead common - not a honey bee, though, I'll wager. Your dipteran is a Yellow Dung Fly, I reckon, Scathophaga stercoraria, if my Collins Gem Insects is any guide. Scatho meaning 'dung' and phaga meaning 'eat', apparently. Yes, well.. A corner of rural England has its poet back on the beat – a very enjoyable read, Mark.
Any idea on an id for that second bee? Only a snapped one of very similar colours – yellow-black-yellow-black-orange, going head to tail – on clover the other day and can’t find what it is. Probably that means it’s dead common – not a honey bee, though, I’ll wager.
Your dipteran is a Yellow Dung Fly, I reckon, Scathophaga stercoraria, if my Collins Gem Insects is any guide. Scatho meaning ‘dung’ and phaga meaning ‘eat’, apparently. Yes, well..

]]> By: mike knipe http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-996 mike knipe Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:12:40 +0000 http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-996 The middle bits are the naughty bits - stamens, stigmas - unless its a daisy family, in which case they're hundreds of little florets...you'd need a magnifier to see the naughty bits. A flower's colour is sometimes not the best way to identify it, they can vary quite a bit. The middle bits are the naughty bits – stamens, stigmas – unless its a daisy family, in which case they’re hundreds of little florets…you’d need a magnifier to see the naughty bits.
A flower’s colour is sometimes not the best way to identify it, they can vary quite a bit.

]]> By: Tom http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-995 Tom Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:16:03 +0000 http://beatingthebounds.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/everythings-coming-up/#comment-995 Hello Mark.. glad to have you back beating the bounds. I've missed your walks... and it is great to be able to drop by today knowing you are up and out again... Love all the pictures and your writing. Tom I have Greenfinches on both blogs today <a href="http://womtig.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow"> Wiggers World </a> and <a href="http://poempic.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow"> Pictures & Words </a> Hello Mark.. glad to have you back beating the bounds. I’ve missed your walks… and it is great to be able to drop by today knowing you are up and out again… Love all the pictures and your writing.

Tom

I have Greenfinches on both blogs today Wiggers World and Pictures & Words

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