Southerner

It’s only three years since R found the first Oak Bush-cricket either of us had ever seen, on an iris leaf in the wildlife pond, but since then I’ve found them quite regularly on different trees and shrubs around the … Continued

Snout

And what a snout it is. Rhingia campestris is quite a small hoverfly, and thus easy to overlook, but once you’ve spotted one the only insect with which it could reasonably be confused is its close cousin, Rhingia rostrata. The … Continued