These are just pictures I have snapped of insects whenever I have spotted them. Please let me know if I have any of the identification wrong…

Red admiral butterfly on Mahonia, November 2011...

Plume moth in the kitchen, November 2011...

Bee on popcorn hydrangea Ayesha, October 2011...

Moth on a brick wall, August 2011

Cabbage white caterpillar (Pieris brassicae) and tiny snail on Nasturtium, August 2011

A solitary bee on Nasturtium, June 9, 2011.

A slightly different angle on the solitary bee.

A pretty blue-blacPhymatocera aterrima on the Solomon's seal in my garden, April 23, 2011

Not a very good picture and taken from a distance, but on April 9, 2011 I finally identified the little blue butterflies in the garden - the holly blue, Celastrina argiolus...

A bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria, on April 9, 2011. Click on the picture to go to my blog post about all sorts of things called bluebottles...

Small tortoiseshell butterfly (Aglais urticae) on lavender at Aberglasney Gardens, August 2010

Hoverfly on Euphorbia at Aberglasney Gardens, August 2010

Peacock butterfly (Inachis io) on Verbena bonariensis at Aberglasney Gardens, August 2010

Bee on buddleia at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Llanelli, August 2010

Hoverfly at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Centre, Llanelli, August 2010

A harvestman on a gate on the RSPB nature reserve at Arne, East Dorset, August 2010

The garden in early August 2010 - caterpillars of Large White butterfly (Pieris brassicae) on Nasturtium leaf

I didn't see it until I downloaded the picture - spot the harvestman, right, on this wet spider web in the garden in August

The garden in late July 2010 - small white butterfly (Pieris rapae)

The garden in late July 2010 - small green grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus?) on the wall

The garden at the end of June 2010 - mating buff ermine moths (Spilosoma lutea)

The garden in late June 2010 - bee-like insect on Campanula

The garden in Mid May 2010 - pretty little beetle on Campanula leaf

My first garden butterfly of the year - a Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) on April 24, 2010

Wildlife on the walls of Canton, Cardiff, on March 29, 2010 - unidentified moth - maybe an oak beauty (Biston strataria)?

Dewstow Gardens & Grottoes, Monmouthshire, Wales - peacock butterfly (Inachis io)

National Botanic Garden of Wales August 2009 - the bee garden

National Botanic Garden of Wales August 2009 - bee on Eryngium

National Botanic Garden of Wales August 2009 - red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)

National Botanic Garden of Wales August 2009 - bee on Helichrysum

Red admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) on Mahonia x media Charity in December
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