Glynn Hobbs - imageweaver

Yesterday, I was lucky enough to find Digger Wasps excavating their nest holes on an earth bank in my garden. Their amazing story, is told below.  The images were all taken with my Nikon D500 with 70-200f4 fitted with Raynox DCR150 macro attachment and Marumi Ringflash. Digger Wasp emerging from its nest. Digger wasps are a type of solitary wasp, meaning that a female will make a nest for her own young. This nesting behaviour is different to social wasps, as female social wasps co-operate with their siblings and their mother in the maintenance of a colony that may well contain hundreds or even thousands of workers as well as a queen. Having chosen a suitable neighborhood, the female starts to excavate. The general life pattern of a female Digger wasp involves preparing a nest, provisioning it with prey as food for her offspring, laying her eggs and then sealing up the nest. When preparing a nest a female will dig a burrow using spiny brushes on her legs. The

Earlier this week, I spent a few hours photographing the Common Lizards, that spend their life in my garden.   Although quite shy and wary of any sudden movements, they were happy to allow me into their world. The following images of them, were all taken with my Nikon D500 and 200-500 f5.6 lens, mainly at 500mm. This shot clearly shows the 'Nicitating Membrane', or 3rd eyelid, which allows light, maintains vision and lubricates and protects the eye. Back in December last year, I wrote a specific blog about these captivating little creatures , which gives more details about them and explains the difference between Lizard's and Gecko's. Here is the link: https://imageweaver.blogspot.com/2018/12/common-wall-lizardand-why-its-not-gecko.html if you enjoy reading my Wildlife Photography blogs,  please check out my ' Previous Blogs '  by clicking on the link at the t

This week, I have been photographing the butterflies that are attracted to the Buddleia in my garden. These wonderful shrubs are always covered in butterflies at this time of year and here in South West France, we also get the amazing 'Humming Bird Hawk Moth' and the colourful 'Bee Hawk Moth'. These Hawk moths actually flap their wings 3 times faster than the Hummingbirds that they are named after! All of these images were taken with my Nikon D500/Nikon 200-500 combination at 500mm and a distance of approx 7 feet. Hope you enjoy them. Common Swallowtail Scarce Swallowtail - which is actually more common than the 'Common Swallowtail' Peacock Butterfly Red Admiral Butterfly Fritillary Butterfly White Admiral Butterfly Granville Fritillary An absolutely 'tattered' butterfly.........it always amazes me, how they fly with such damage to their wings. Hummingbird Hawk Moth The absolutely stun

This week has been similar to the past 6 weeks.......... HOT!! I tend to go 'stir crazy', if I don't pick up the camera for a couple of days and I always work by the theory, that if i'm not out searching, i'm not going to find anything! I usually try to concentrate on one new target subject, so that I can tell you a little about it, along with dedicated images.  However,  I n the current weather climate, this has not been possible and  a s much as I try to get out with the camera every day, the heat has been intense, resulting in most of the local wildlife continuing to hide away from the sun and my best attempts to find them.   So here are a selection of newly taken shots, of creatures that I have been able to find, but may have previously covered in my blogs.................hope you like them. And then, just as I had exhausted the Natural History of my garden, thi