Serendipity
As I walked back to the house this morning after a trip down the garden to put some kitchen refuse on the compost heap, I wondered what on earth I was going to find to photograph on such a dark, … Continued
Steampunk baby
I was surprised to spot this little Issus coleoptratus nymph today, out and about on the honeysuckle by the garage. As far as I knew until now, our entire garden colony of this planthopper lived in the ivy on our … Continued
Inchresting
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
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