Polldemort (with any luck) (tonight’s dinner - democracy sausages and mash - this time with photos included…☺️)

Coffee and cat in bed again 😊🥰

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An experiment I’ve wanted to try for ages - seeing if our local Forest Scorpions fluoresce under UV light. Not ideal to try in daylight but nevertheless it seems they do #wildoz

Sorted - hiding at the self serve checkouts $2 (vs the few fancier ones out on the store and nearly double the price - sneaky)

Better than my kit (and they were second generation as I thought they’d all rotted off)… Roughly marble-sized or a tad bigger

#Masked #bees are cute- often watching me watch them as they guard their nest like this #wildoz

#wildoz garden hitchhiker turned out to be a as very young Preying Mantis - safely released

Another native #bee on a #Triggerplant - this one larger and it both hovered in front of me in a vaguely aggressive way and landed on my arm - Megachile perhaps - smaller than a blue-banded bee but flight similar #wildoz

When you accidentally video instead of photograph and it works out better! One of a few types of native bee visiting one of the Triggerplants in our garden (failing to trigger the active columns of the flowers - I think most have already been triggered today) #wildoz #bee #triggerplant

New beginning under these blue skies, here’s a little video I took of a Common Peacock Spider I was lucky enough to spot on the weekend - a creature I’ve been hoping to see ever since I learnt of their existence. 😊 (excuse the shakiness - max zoom, handheld and cropped video)