I’ve got this though Gwales Newsletter. Voted of course.
Welcome to the forum @Janette
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They certainly are.
Heddiw - today.
es i’r rhostir y bore 'ma - i went to the heathland this morning.
Dau copor bach gyd y gilydd - Two small coppers together.
pan on i dychwelyd adref - when i returned home,
I saw the chrysalis i collected a few days ago had started emerging so had to quickly/gently set up an old ruler across two mugs with a pair of grips to hold the leaf with the butterfly still hanging with it’s wings drying.
o dan adain mantell goch - under wing of red admiral.
when the wings had dried the butterfly flew up to my skylight.
Quick photo and open window so it could fly away, (if you see a mantell goch tomorrow it may be this one.
(poor lighting for indoor photo’s).
Cheers J.P.
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Is that Swansea Airfield? I never associated it with frogs! Only with a friend’s plane and the Gower Show!
To @Janette Croeso! Where are you?
to @ramblingjohn I think that indoor butterfly shot is absolutely brilliant!
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I’ll jump in with some recent pics.
BEWARE! COPYN! (though)
Copyn cariad - Spider love
copyn benywaidd = spider female
OK, enough spiders for today. Let’s see something more beautiful.
Lleuad = Moon
enfys = rainbow
gwyfyn = moth
ffynhonnell yr Afon Sava enw Zelenci = Spring of the Sava river called Zelenci. (I’m not sure if the “ffynhonnell” is the right word though.
Hwyl! 
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Lovely photos, Tatiana. (Well, maybe not the spiders so much . . .)
And ffynnon is the usual word for the sort of source that is a spring (as here). The same word is used for a well (especially, I think, because a lot of wells are actually springs) or a fountain (same thing).
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Nope, not Swansea - the farmstrip near Margam where the microlight is. Swansea is escaped sheep, skylarks and buzzards!
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I like the spider pictures, particularly the wary male who wants to mate but has to take care not to be eaten.
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Ooo, ja. That was the case on this picture. I just didn’t see the scene when female ate a male but obviously she did so as my husband saw just spider legs around the next morning. I know she’s still alive as she just wrapped one fly again.
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MORE SPIDERS!!! and a fly.
Instead of chasing insects outside my house … o yes I’m chasing them but with photo camera at ready so here we go as promised
un copyn = one spider
ac un hedfan = and one fly.
Hwyl!
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eich gwyfyn yn edrych fel rhisglyn brych - your moth looks like Mottled beauty.
That really is a nice photo (do people swim there).
Cheers J.P.
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My first thought was that that one looks very much like what we (in the US) call a “grandaddy longlegs” (or just a daddy longlegs). It is, indeed, completely harmless to humans and anything else that doesn’t eat it but, as I understand it, it is among the most poisonous of buggy things in the world for anything that does eat it. It has an extremely lethal poison inside it, but no way to deliver it because it has no sting, no pincers, not even a mouth to bite with. It may not be the same critter, but it looks a lot like that.
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Mwy o’r artig / more from the artic. Little & large.
Very small, lichen. Cen, yn fach iawn. Mae’r darnau coch yn cynhyrchu sborau. The red bits produce the spores.
Polar bear - arth wen. A cub - cenau.
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Daddy longlegs a common name here too. Certainly round this way, it’s more common than harvestman. Never heard “grandaddy longlegs”, but that doesn’t mean no one round here uses it, of course!
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No. It’s protected area and swimming here is forbidden but there are many big fish (well, relatively big for this area) in the water. The area is part of Triglav National Park which is (this might interest you) twinned with Snowdonia.
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Thank you all for all your explanations about “spider”. To be honest I didn’t know all this and I don’t know how they’re called by us.
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Nope, that’s a different beast. The one I"m thinking of looks a lot like Tatiana’s photo, but the body is usually more drab.
Interesting - I decided to do a little research on the “Daddy Longlegs” or “Harvestmen” or whatever and besides finding out that there are three different bugs that are called Daddy Longlegs by different groups of people, I discovered that the poison thing is a myth (Though I was assured by a reputable source years ago that it was true). This article debunks that myth and has photos of the three main “Daddy Longlegs.” The one I’m familiar with is the one on the left.
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Isn’t it great there is no way for someone to be “right” or “wrong” over local names for things. Always good to hear how other people use such words locally.
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Great photo’s and discussion folks, (keep on doing what you are doing).
Heddiw - Today.
Amanita gwridog - the blusher. (note the young one is pale and they redden with age ).
Melyn y pisgwydd - Orange sallow
(Roedd hyn hedfan o gwmpas fy nghegin. - This was flying around my kitchen).
Cheers J.P.
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Great pictures.
Let’s go to the beauty:
rhosyn = rose
hedfan ar y rhwyd gwrth-mosgito = fly on the anti-moskito net (I’m not sure if this last is correct at all.)
Hwyl
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