Close up of a tiny fly

This little critter, with a body about 1mm long, dropped dead on a windowsill.

This is a picture of the wing, at about 400x magnification. You can see the tiny hairs on the edge of the wing and all over it.

Here is the head and a leg - you can see the compound nature of the eye, plus hairs on the leg. Again at about 400x magnification.

First swallow of summer seen

First swallow of the summer seen on a telephone wire in Walton, Somerset (near Street) yesterday.

Monks Pool Nature Reserve

A picture from Monks Pool Nature Reserve last month.

More bugs

More bugs which have infected plants - the one on the left is a flying aphid, the one on the right is 0.8mm long and unknown, both on the underside of a sweet pepper plant.

Tesco again - missing apostrophe

Spotted in Tesco At Home this weekend - shows why the apostrophe is important....

The latest great multibuy offer from Tesco

Disgruntled was just astounded by the savings to be made in this multibuy offer from Tesco yesterday.....

Acyrthosiphon

This is an acyrthosiphon aphid, sitting on the underneath of a pepper plant leaf. It's about 1mm long, and has been busy making a mess of and helping to kill leaves from the plant. The white spots it produces can be seen in the microscope image below.

Shown here is a leaf which has dropped from the plant and has dried out a bit, hence the black spots visible which are enlarged stomata. The white goo is produced by the aphids.