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13 Aug 2022

Spittlebug

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

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

9 Jul 2022

Emergency butterfly

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

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

28 Jun 2022

Vestal

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

R and I had some errands to run in Stratford, and I took a walk along the river bank, checking for inverts, before going into town. Numbers were pretty disappointing, I have to say, though it was fairly windy, and … Continued

25 Jun 2022

Bronze

by JDO | posted in: Bugs, Invertebrates, Wales | 0

Day three back from holiday. Desperate for a lie-in – but no. Off to Cardiff (again) early doors, to take charge of the Boy Wonder and give his parents a twenty four hour break. Not that they don’t worship the … Continued

31 May 2022

Hoverating

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

I was raging to go out in search of dragons today, and had several potentially good sites in mind, but the weather forecasts for all of them suggested that if I went I had around a 30% chance of being … Continued

19 Apr 2022

Early

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

Waking to brightness behind the bedroom curtains, on a day when I knew cloud and rain was forecast, I decided to get up and out, to try to catch some inverts in the early sunshine. It was cold when I … Continued

3 Apr 2022

Cryptic

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

A couple of days ago I spotted a hoverfly in the garden which I tentatively suggested to the Recording Scheme might be Platycheirus ambiguus. I was very pleased when one of the admins accepted the identification, because it was a … Continued

18 Jan 2022

Iced

by JDO | posted in: Flowers and plants, My garden, Worcestershire | 0

I missed a beautiful sunny start to the day, because I woke up tired and struggled to get myself moving – by the time I made it outside, at about 10am, the cloud had rolled in and it had tuned … Continued

15 Dec 2021

Orange

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

I was pretty pleased with myself when I found this orange ladybird on the photinia today. At least until I read the new edition of the Hawker – the journal of the British Dragonfly Society – and discovered that Common … Continued

5 Dec 2021

Persecuted

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

I feel guilty every time I do this – though not guilty enough to stop, obviously. I was searching the photinia for birch catkin bugs when I caught sight of this leafhopper, which was trying to edge round to the … Continued