My garden

It took me a while to work out what it was about this Hummingbird Hawkmoth that looked a little strange, but eventually I realised that he only has one antenna, the right one being completely missing. I’ve never seen this … Continued

I love the apparently relaxed way the Hummingbird Hawkmoths hover over their chosen food plants. They manage to give the impression that they’re thinking about something else, while absentmindedly threading that extraordinary proboscis into the nectar tube of a flower. … Continued

R and I have now recovered from the various excitements of last week, and settled back into something like our normal routine. To be strictly accurate though, that’s more true of him than of me, because I now have a … Continued