Common striped woodlouse, Philoscia muscorum
Three photographic catastrophes this morning (1) No power in my camera battery; (2) Inserted the standby to find here was no power in that either; (3) Then discovered there was no SD card in the camera anyway! Tried out my Nikon macro lens not very successfully with this Slater, but didn't persevere enough to get a good shot - so the bokeh is up the creek. Then I thought there must be more to life than 'bokeh' and took off for Lidls to buy some smoked salmon and red wine. That was a good move actually because I saw something that made me giggle: Just leaving Lidls Car Park was a little Smart car completely covered in a leopard-skin design - must have cost the owners fortune to get that done! But there's more to come! The registration number was (and I'm not kidding) K1DUS! Lovely couple of a certain age driving - him in a safari hat. Although this isn't a very good blip I was struck by the greenish tint to this creature - they are usually more greyish. By the way, Woodlice (or 'Slaters' in Scotland) are not insects, they are crustaceans and are related to crabs, lobsters and shrimps - so Google informs me. They have blue blood – literally!
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