Ladybirds

 Spotted these after a visit to the Quaker cemetery in the town. 

And another big one...

 A big male Tegenaria/Eratigena 

House spiders are abroad

 And they're looking for lurve. 

Bdelloid rotifer

 From a sample of standing water in the garden. 

A Bdelloid rotifer and red algae

There Stood a Mighty Oak

 Taken a few years back at Stockton on Tees, a big oak tree stood by the river Tees. 

A little moth and a big spider

 Couple of visitors the other day, first an Orange Swift which I photographed with a new macro light set up I got from SRB.

A couple of days later there appeared a small brown moth which I got IDed as Light Brown Apple Moth

Then in the evening my daughter spotted a spider near the back door. It had been a very hot day, 30°C plus, and this chap had managed to find himself a drink.

A Special Event

 A partial solar eclipse happened today. 

Beginning around 7pm we got a partial eclipse with 92% coverage.

It was cloudy for most of it but I got a couple of images, first using a home made pinhole lens, (camera body cap with small hole taped over larger hole underneath)

Then I used my 75-300 at 300mm with a polariser and exposure of 1/8000 sec at f45.