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29 Aug 2022

Making whoopee

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

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

17 Aug 2022

Lumpy

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

As we move inexorably towards autumn, I’m finding increasing numbers of arachnids around the garden. Many of them are tricky to identify, but this has always been regarded as one of the easiest: it’s Dicranopalpus ramosus, an opilione or harvestman, … Continued

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