Of all the insect-friendly plants and shrubs in my garden the Potentilla seems to be the most popular. Here's a small selection of things I've found in the flowers in the past two weeks.
A small moth I've not yet got round to identifying. This is a stack of two images.
The flowers are only about 30mm (just over an inch) across, so you can imagine how small this tiny beetle is.
Here are a couple of plant bugs.
This very small moth is called the Apple Leaf Skeletoniser - very descriptive of their behaviour!
This wasp is really tiny - I don't know what species.
Because the flowers are so popular with insects, they make a profitable hiding place for spiders llike this crab spider, which has caught a greenbottle fly. This was a painstaking manual stack of 13 images. I had the camera on a focusing rail, but the flower was blowing in the wind. There was also an annoying hair in the image, which I daren't try to physically remove for disturbing the spider, but it took ages to clone out between layers. I'm happy with the final result and the focus depth it gives.
