Fly on the shed

 Had to get low with my Canon IXUS and point and hope. 

Garden Spider

 This huge female Araneus diadematus has set up her web on my potato plant. It would be rude of me not to get photos...

Pellitory of the Wall

There is lots of this nettle relative growing on Richmond Castle, Yorkshire

 

Mirid Bug

 I thought this was a Shield Bug nymph at first but it turns out its a Mirid bug 

Leafhopper

 Spotted on a buddleia leaf. He was hard to photograph! And I discovered they are related to Cicadas!

Jumping Spider

 I so love these little guys 

Lichens!

I spotted lots of these on the concrete fence posts in our garden. Very interesting organisms!

I also noticed marked difference in the colour of the grey lichens when they are wet

Plume Moth

Emmelina monodactyla (Pterophoridae) seen on the ceiling

Snail on my Aloe

 Bringing my plants in from the greenhouse I spotted this little chap nestling among the leaves of my Lace Aloe.

Canon IXUS 265

Tiny spider on Aloe

A pale form of  Enoplognatha ovata (Candy-Stripe Spider), on one of my Aloes.

Canon IXUS

Little Pink Aliens

I got a new microscope (well, a secondhand one) and I've been trying it out on my old slides. This is an image of a section of corn showing the phloem and xylem cells. The image was made by holding my Canon compact up the eyepiece, hence the circular image.

And this is an image of fern sporangia, cropped to create a rectangular image.

Bumble bee on Coneflower

Taken today at Preston Park Museum and Grounds with my IXUS compact.

Poison Dart Frogs

I spotted these on a trip to Chester Zoo and snapped them with my IXUS compact.

Green Veined White Butterfly on Knapweed

Took this yesterday (1st August) while out on a nature walk with my daughter.
Taken on my little Canon compact, exposure set to -1 stop.

Night Worker

I spotted this web while out in the garden one night and I captured it with my IXUS in night mode.

New compact camera.

My old Panasonic bridge camera died on me so we got a replacement,  a Canon IXUS265HS, and it's tiny!
It's packed full of features though including a 1cm macro mode,  full HD video, wi-fi and the ability to control it remotely from my phone!
I hope to get some shots through the microscope with it but need a way of holding it in place over the eyepiece.

Here it is.