Late
5 Oct 2024

Late

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I was pretty tired today after all the gadding about of the past three days, but it was warm and the light was good, and not knowing how many days like that we might have left to us this year, … Continued

Rare
14 Sep 2024

Rare

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After a morning practising Domestic Goddesshood (shopping taken in and put away, next week’s breakfast yogurt fermenting, and an aubergine loaf made for dinner tonight), I decided that I’d earned a trip over to Trench Wood in search of insects. … Continued

Rainbow
20 Sep 2022

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

Weevil Knievel
30 Aug 2022

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
14 Jun 2022

Roller

by | posted in: Beetles, Bugs, Invertebrates, Worcestershire | 0

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