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| You just have to ask... Is the wall holding the ivy up? or... Is the ivy holding up the wall? |
Number two was a section of a very small, but pretty snail [so close Susan... 'twas a mollusc] and isn't it pretty?....
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| In a whorl of its own! [Only 8mm across!] |
Number three was the abdomen of a fabulous "garden" or Orb Web spider Araneus diadematus
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| This is the 'view' of the back of the abdomen. |
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| And this is it from the front! |
Wotisit Four was the thorax, as Susan guessed, the 'giant' hoverfly Melissa crabroformis
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| I love the "tribal mask" that the pattern on the thorax makes! |
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Milesia crabroniformis - a rather battered looking male.
At this time of the year [pictures taken 12/10] I am not really surprised. Do they hibernate? Because the one in the 'olde' kitchen a couple of weeks later looked in much better condition, larger and shinier... and it was working its way along the beams [that's what made me suspect it was a hornet initially!]
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