Stripy socks
I woke up this morning feeling completely wrecked. I think I’ve been overdoing things a bit recently, plus I currently have a virus that’s bad enough for me to have felt that I should do a Covid test (negative, luckily) … Continued
Prehistoric
It’s been perplexing me for a while now that, while I can always find leafhoppers when I do my garden mini-beast safaris, I’d never once spotted a planthopper. Today I broke my duck with three tiny (sub-3mm) Issus coleoptratus nymphs, … Continued
Early and late
Three weeks ago I posted a little clutch of first instar woundwort shieldbug nymphs, and commented that they would be approaching adulthood in around a month. I’ve tried to keep an eye on their development since then, but the weather … Continued
Nymphomania
Ever since I first saw woundwort shieldbugs mating on the hedge woundwort, and then later spotted a little clutch of eggs, I’ve been waiting for the annual nymph nursery to appear. The interesting thing about woundwort shieldbugs is that the … Continued
Babe
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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
Interloper
This is the cuckoo in my shieldbug nursery – an analogy that promptly falls to the ground, I confess, because although it’s not yet fully grown it’s entirely independent. But anyway. I still have several dozen Woundwort Shieldbugs on the … Continued
Ready to pop
R and I are currently suffering acutely from Baby B’s cold. In fact we were both so ill by yesterday evening that we started to wonder if we might actually have Covid, so we took lateral flow tests (please don’t … Continued
