crocosmia – Jill Orme Photography

15 Jul 2025

Macro mayhem

by JDO | posted in: Hoverflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

The weather turned stormy this morning, which would have been fine if we’d received a decent amount of rain, but though 10mm had been forecast, I doubt in the event if we received even half of that. Enough to dampen … Continued

8 Aug 2024

Flying

by JDO | posted in: Hoverflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Knowing that the weather was forecast to turn, I went out into the garden early (by my standards, at least), in the hope of finding yesterday’s leafcutter bee back at work. I staked out the fence post and waited for … Continued

28 Jul 2023

Bronzed

by JDO | posted in: Arachnids, Bugs, Invertebrates, My garden, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

I know that I’ve posted a few of these Red-legged Shieldbugs recently, but I simply can’t resist this fabulous beast, which I swept out of the Lawson cypress this morning. Given the proximity of the cypress to the willow-leaved cotoneaster … Continued

10 Jul 2023

Inchresting

by JDO | posted in: Bugs, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

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

18 Jun 2023

Large Skipper

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

Three more Large Red Damselflies emerged from our patio pond this morning, and three from the wildlife pond. I expected to be posting one of these today (in hope that the rest of the world wasn’t sick of the sight … Continued

3 Aug 2022

Gently smiling jaws

by JDO | posted in: Dragonflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Odonata, Worcestershire | 0

R and I are busy, busy, busy right now, with the family coming to stay at the weekend, so I didn’t have much time today to search the garden for invertebrates. I can say two things quite confidently though: we … Continued

20 Aug 2021

Speckled

by JDO | posted in: Crickets, Invertebrates, My garden, Orthoptera, Worcestershire | 0

“Stay here and stare at him while I fetch the macro,” I instructed R. “It’ll stop him moving.” When I arrived back at the montbretia patch, rather than having the cricket transfixed with a steely glare, R was shuffling his … Continued

27 Jun 2021

Calm

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

One of the things that cheered me up during the first lockdown last year was the fact that the warm spring and early summer brought a large number of butterflies to our garden, some of which I’d never seen here … Continued

27 Jul 2019

Wet

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

You may be relieved to hear that I don’t have much to tell you today. It rained. I did processing and recorded some bugs. I listened to some podcasts. R and I made tiffin. I squelched round the garden and … Continued