Rainbow

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Trench Wood was a strange place today – warm and at least intermittently sunny, and with a fair amount of devil’s bit scabious still flowering, but virtually devoid of nectar-feeding inverts: across two hours I reckon I saw just three … Continued

Cinnamon

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I got a little bit overexcited when I first spotted this bug, thinking that I might have found a firebug, but by the time I’d taken its photo I’d realised that it was “the other one” – Corizus hyoscyami, the … Continued

Carnage

Though it’s one of our smallest ladybirds, at 3.5-4.5mm in length, the 14-spot is a voracious predator of aphids. The swarm of aphids on my yarrow plants seems to have defeated the larger 7-spots and harlequins, which have now abandoned … Continued

Weevil Knievel

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I spent a couple of happy hours in Trench Wood this afternoon, getting some invertebrate therapy. I arrived in bright sunshine, but by the time I was walking back along the main ride towards the car park it had clouded … Continued

Roller

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A trip to Trench Wood this morning gifted an unexpected encounter in the car park with my friend RC – he’s a renownedly early riser, and I’m not, so our flight periods rarely overlap. For the next couple of hours … Continued