Clematis integrifolia, a non climbing clematis.

It was cold outside this morning, only 8C (46F) and the sun was already a bit up on the sky when we went out for our morning walk. I didn´t bring my mosquito hat today because the strangest thing happened when we were out walking in the forest yesterday evening. The sun shined and it was quite warm then, but only two flies tried to annoy me?!

I´ve never seen any hymenopteras looking like this one sitting on a Aralia flower.

The wings are torn and it´s close to th end for this butterfly. It didn´t even care that I came close. Otherwise this one is really hard to get a photo with its wings open like this.

I walked on those places I knew there would be lots of flies, but no not a single one. I had forgotten how it felt walking around without the mosquito hat on in the forest :-) :-) They all come at the same time, so perhaps they go out of this life together too? I can´t remember this happening during these soon eleven years I´ve been living here. But I talked with my neighbor and she said it happened from time till time. I so hope they have all died :-) :-) :-) If so there´s only the awful Moose fly left, but they won´t start for yet a couple of weeks (I tell You more about them when they arrive).

The European Peacock. We call it Peacock eye here in sweden.

All potatoes I planted has managed to survive all the rain we´ve had these last weeks. They grow fast and need to do so if I´m going to get any potatoes :-)

But there were a lot of dragon flies and butterflies flying around instead. I must say that they weren´t especially cooperative when it came to take photos of them, but I did manage to take photos of two of them anyway and some other insects I found both in the forest and in my garden. I have also taken a photograph of one of our most poisoness spiders (we call it Cross spider because it has a cross on its back) but I post that photo last today so that You who have troubles looking at spiders knows where it is.

If I put together all the different weather forecasts I can find we will have partly cloudy with risk for showers here today and reasonable warm. With a very few flies around it might even be nice to mow the lawn :-) I should have done that days ago but I can wait another couple of days until it´s too late :-)

Hawthorn.

But before anything else I will have a cup of tea and then it´s off to the grocery store in Gudhem. It´s time to fill up my fridge again.

Have a great day now!

 

 
 

The Cross spider. This must be a male since it´s rather small and brown. The female is three times as big and more towards greyish black in her colors. I like them a lot since I lost my fear of spiders :-)