Coalition of chaos
I don’t blame you for hiding your face, mate – I’ve been watching the news feeds through my fingers for the past twelve hours. I’m starting to think that the script team on this season of The End of British … Continued
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This Paroligolophus agrestis – beaten from a viburnum during a late afternoon scuttle around the garden, holds today’s place in my journal for the simple reason that I don’t post pictures of pictures. Apart from this brief burst of activity, … Continued
Lesser thorn-tipped longhorn beetle
Following a discussion with uniqueandlovely last week I bought myself a sweep net, and this afternoon I wandered around the garden, sweeping across soft vegetation and beating trees and shrubs, to see what I could find. The answer was: plenty … Continued
Camouflage
This dock bug and I have been playing a little game of hide and seek with each other around the fruit bed in the secret garden for most of this week. This morning I caught it pretending to be part … Continued
Juniper shieldbug
I don’t want to big myself up too much here (though I’m going to, obviously), but this was a very difficult shot to get. And R loves it, strongly preferring it to my other offering, which is a (technically better) … Continued
Making whoopee
I had a good day today, invertebrate-wise, and there are several photos in this set that would have worked very well for tonight’s blip, but I’ve decided to use this post to mark the day’s two ‘firsts’: the main image … Continued
Spittlebug
It was R’s birthday today – he’d rather I didn’t tell you which one, obviously – and in the wake of our recent busy family times he requested that the two of us have a quiet day at home, with … Continued
Emergency butterfly
I like to post at least one photo of a Meadow Brown each summer, and at least one photo of something or other feeding on our blue hebe. This year, in the interests of efficiency, I’ve combined them. Efficiency was … Continued