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Eggy
webmaster & eldest son
Camberwell, London
Garden Insect closeups31 Aug '04 9:01 am
The website manager and I spent a long weekend holiday in Bridgwater, Somerset where we stayed with friends. I spend an hour in Pete's small town garden poking around my new digital gardening cameras super macro function.
I finally have a forum for my insect closeups 
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This ticklike insect was perched on the edge of a banana leaf basking in the sun.
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This yellow and black spined caterpillar was caught on an unknown pink fragrant rose.
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This leaf hopping insect is a master of disguise and is difficult to spot.
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Look before you leap! A small garden snail munches thru foliage.
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A mottled grey housefly on one of pete's deck chairs.
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moosey
head gardener
1 Sep '04 9:36 pm
Hmm... The Eggy Insect Image Series Mark 2 has finally been launched on an unsuspecting public. What's next? Clouds? Birds? I challenge you to do a series on British frogs!
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Swallowstitch
honoured contributor
Geraldine New Zealand
Garden Insect Close Ups9 Sep '04 7:45 pm
You started with a fly 
The others are cute in their own way but a fly?
Are you a closet Entomologist by any chance Eggy?
Subjects aside, they are very nice close ups. Your Fuji is a good camera.
PS :Looking forward to the videos even if they are going to be huge and slow to download.
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Bex
website manager
Camberwell, London
insects12 Sep '04 2:31 am
Glad someone agrees with my reluctance at viewing a FLY close up - they are foul enough at a distance!
The other bug photos are amazing tho - definitely worth the (much more than one) hours spent tracking them in the garden 
Now, where can we find some frogs...?
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16 Jun '06 8:12 pm
Yummy.. That must have taken a while to organise that..
Howd you do it?
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
Lady Bug17 Jun '06 7:25 am
I almost had a pic of the most beautiful Damsel Fly, but it flew away before I could snap a pic.
Here is our friendly Lady bug. They are just everywhere in the yard.
Christopher
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Sitting on our fence, making sure we do things right.
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jacqueline
Thankful Gardener
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lady Bugs!20 Jun '06 2:01 am
Hi Christopher, you're very blessed to have these bugs in abundance in your garden! I recall reading that they're helpful in cleaning plants of mealy bugs and white flies. I was very glad to see them (mine was the brownish species with black spots) residing on my red ginger plants previously, but they sadly disappeared when I had to get rid of those plants last August because my garden lacked ground space for its optimum growth and its tough dead clumps had to be dug out and removed for new growth every two to three years which was detrimental on my 'feeble' hands!
A picture of the red ginger aka alpinia purpurata, specially for you.
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Lovely red ginger, sadly missed!
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
Red Ginger!20 Jun '06 2:48 am
Hi, again, dear Jacqueline! Lovely to see you back with us again! I hope your absence wasn't caused by any serious reasons...
What a lovely plant you share with us! Is it difficult to grow? Has it any connection with the ginger roots we use in the cooking? Because, it would be such a shame to kill this lovely plant and eat the roots.. But "Alpinia Purpurata" indicates it is a red, alpine plant? Anyway, I was always wondering what sort of plant is the ginger we eat...
Recently, in the garden magazine I am subscribed there is information on how to eat (: recipes)...Phlox, Capucine/Tropaeolum, Bourache/Borrago officinalis, Daylily/Hemerocallis hybrida, Agastache/Agastache x mexicana, and...Begonia/ B. grandis ssp. evansiana!!! Dear me! Do you imagine that??
By the way, I present you here an... unintentioned insect close-up of today : a little fly on the Peony!
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GardenGnome
Happily Toiling Away
Regina, Saskatchewan
Bugs from last year.20 Jun '06 10:35 am
I had a few guests grace my garden last summer. Here are a few I captured with the lens.
Christopher.
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I watched this Lady Bug take a walk around my Straw Flower.
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Another guest on the Straw Flowers.
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He went from bloom to bloom.
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He had lots to choose from!
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The ants are busy helping our Peony to bloom.
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Liza
gardening consultant
Waterloo, Belgium
My God, Christopher!!20 Jun '06 8:24 pm
What absolutely gorgeous flowers you sent us today! I LOVE THEM ALL!! And the view of Peonies always fills me with the most uplifting, grateful feelings....
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