quince tree – Jill Orme Photography

9 Oct 2023

Parent

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

Today felt more like the second week of June than the second week of October. In terms of the future of the planet this is quite worrying – but I confess that I’m finding it impossible not to enjoy the … Continued

6 Oct 2023

Reprise

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

R and I had a busy day today. This morning I had appointments in Evesham for my Covid-19 booster and annual ‘flu vaccination, and because the Evesham Mop is on, and half of the town therefore unnavigable, R sweetly offered … Continued

5 Oct 2023

Makeover

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

A 5am start with the Boy Wonder today was pretty much exactly what I didn’t need, but I wanted his mother to get more rest, and figured I could always get more sleep myself after they’d gone back to Wales. … Continued

2 Apr 2023

Picnic

by JDO | posted in: Arachnids, Bees, Flies, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

“Is it,” I asked myself, “maybe a little too early in the season to be posting predation porn?” I considered the question for all of about two seconds, before deciding that it’s never too early. Plus, it seemed only fit … Continued

14 Nov 2022

Salmon-Eggs

by JDO | posted in: Beetles, Fungi and slime moulds, Invertebrates, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

This isn’t the most appealing photo I took today – that would be the spooning Oxystoma pomonae weevils below – but it’s a first for me (unlike my favourite weevils), and that’s enough to get it into pole position this … Continued

13 Oct 2022

Ready to launch

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

I realised recently that you can tell if a bug is thinking about blasting off, because it starts to flex and separate various bits of its exoskeleton. Ever since then I’ve been trying to capture the moment of take-off, and … Continued

10 Oct 2020

Mummy long-legs

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

It was a strange kind of day, weather-wise: periods of bright and even warm sunshine, interspersed with bouts of heavy rain. By dodging the showers, and resorting to flash when necessary, I managed to capture some reasonably pleasing bug portraits, … Continued

23 Aug 2020

Autumnal

by JDO | posted in: Fruit and vegetables, My garden, Trees, Worcestershire | 0

I’m paying the usual price for having had two days of fun, so I was pretty maungy this morning, but when the weather cheered up I made an effort to do the same thing, and went for a walk through … Continued

18 Jul 2020

The Guv’nor

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

This is the Red Admiral who’s in charge of our wild garden. I’m not sure where he spends the early part of each day, but somewhere between 4pm and 5pm every afternoon he turns up and begins expelling undesirables from … Continued

10 Jul 2020

Horrified

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

I spent much of the afternoon stalking grasshoppers and crickets around the village. It isn’t fair, really, because they absolutely hate it – Orthoptera are so far down the food chain that almost everyone eats them, so the closer you … Continued

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