Hanging on
Looking at this, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it was a nice day, but it was not. The ferocious wind and periodic bouts of lashing rain have had me almost at screaming pitch, and by this afternoon I was … Continued
Raindrops…
… keep falling on my…. neck. Or more accurately on my pronotum and elytra. That scans beautifully, I’m sure you’ll agree. I’m really quite pleased with it. Although it’s possible that I’m having a fever dream: I have the Boy … Continued
Inchresting
Yesterday afternoon, while we were out in the village, R and I took the Boy Wonder to Tilly’s field, because the area around the entrance gate is currently seething with grasshoppers and crickets in various stages of development, and I … Continued
Terminator
I made a lightning macro raid on the garden this morning, before R and I set off to collect the Boy Wonder and bring him home for the weekend. The weather was threatening, so a lot of invertebrates were staying … Continued
White legs
After being stuck at home for nearly forty eight hours I was raging to be out and about, but the weather outside my study window wasn’t enticing, and neither of my weather apps was optimistic. By this point in the … Continued
Long hoverfly
It rained here all morning, and well into the afternoon – though not the heavy, soaking rain we actually need, just a constant spattering of irritating drizzle. By mid-afternoon I decided I needed to get out in the garden with … Continued
Small Skipper
Yesterday I took a walk around Tilly’s field, the hay meadow that’s about a hundred metres from our house, and found not only Small and Essex Skippers, but scores – maybe hundreds – of grasshoppers and crickets, in different stages … Continued