Adrian Jones' photos

A Peppered Moth (Biston betularia) larva found in my garden feeding on Willow (Salix magnifica), Shrewsbury, Shropshire, August 2025. This is a stack of fifteen images taken outside in my garden where the caterpillar was found. Light is natural sunlight. Stack was made using DMAP in Zerene, other processing, resizing etc by The Gimp. The image is uncropped.

A freshly emerged Speckled Wood Butterfly on my wildlife lawn. I witnessed this species ovipositing on various grasses a couple of months before I found this freshly hatched specimen. It just goes to show how not mowing your lawn, even if it is small like mine can provide a habitat that allows butterflies to breed, even in a town.

A caterpillar of Anthocharis cardamines, the Orange Tip butterfly feeding on Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) my garden. Taken Shrewsbury, Shropshire June 2025.

A freshly emerged specimen of an Angle Shades moth (Phlogophora meticulosa) found climbing on a small branch in my garden. Taken April 2025 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. This is another stack of some thirty images merged in Dmap using Zerine software.

A mating pair of Poplar Hawk Moths (Laothoe populi) found whilst taking a stroll around my garden. Photographed where I found them in the garden with natural light. I stacked about twenty two images in DMAP using Zerene software to obtain this final image. Taken May 19th in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

A wasp beetle, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, April 2025.

A Nomada Bee feeding on a dandelion flower, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, April 2025.

This is a long exposure taken during the visible aurora (Northern Lights) in Shrewsbury, Shropshire on 1st January 2025 at 1919hrs. It was an accident that I actually captured this, the aurora itself was fading quickly in the north and I decided to try a long exposure looking west. This was the result, I think it's an example of the phenomina called STEVE or to give it it's long name Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement. It was running across the sky from due west to due east and lasted for just a few minutes, a second exposure just after this one failed to show anything.

Taken with a 10x microscope objective and dark field lighting through a compound microscope, possibly a plant trichome or maybe a radiolarian, still trying to find a positive ID.

A wild rose in bloom at Melverley, Shropshire, June 2024.

Female nymph of Roesel's Bush

A male nymph of Roesel's Bush Cricket, Melverley, Shropshire, June 2024.

A Speckled Bush Cricket Nymph at a friends field in Melverly, Shropshire.

Puss Moth Eggs laid in a willow twig in my garden. Shrewsbury, Shropshire , June 2024. This is a stack of thirty images taken in natural light using an OM Systems OM1 Camera..

A Dock Bug catching some sunshine in my garden. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, May 2024.

A Nomada Bee amongst Forget-Me-Nots in my garden. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, May 2024.

A small dungfly sitting on Cow Parsley in my gardewn. Shrewsbury, Shropshire, May 2024.

A Dungfly resting in my garden, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, May 2024.