Babe

Speckled bush crickets are pretty strange little beasts even as adults, but the nymphs are so bizarre I find it hard to believe they’re real, even when I’ve got one cowering in front of me, wondering if I’m about to … Continued

Spotty

R and I went to Croome this morning, where the Odonata season is finally warming up. There were scores of damselflies in evidence, including a large number of tenerals, and – finally – some dragonflies too. The reed bed that … Continued