Angels And Insects

                                                                                                                                                                                                         All photographs by Jo Sinclair

As the summer warms up I keep coming across micro worlds vivid with colour, activity and sound. Tiny fine lines of electric blue damselflies push and pull above the pond. Banded demoiselle damselfly rivals clash whirring wings, petrol blue above the river ripples. Furry immobile bees lie on thistle blooms waiting for sun. In a hot moment I find a rush-hour of bumblebees vibrating in the mouths of  bright blue viper's bugloss flowers. Seething beetles in couples, brown in their carapaces, crawl through the lawn.

On the night of the summer solstice as clouds scudded across a fattening moon, moth traps were set up for the Bioblitz at Wandlebury. The next morning I found avid entomologists and enthralled children identifying the huge range of species lured by the traps' light. Poplar hawkmoth, privet hawkmoth, white ermine, buff-tip, hebrew character, large emerald and peppered moth were just some of the many painterly beauties perched on children's fingers while cameras flashed in the rain.

                                        All photographs by Jo Sinclair