Thymelicus sylvestris – Jill Orme Photography

17 Jun 2026

Fresh

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

Unsurprisingly, given everything R and I got done yesterday, today I was tired and stiff, and as ever in these situations, quite grumpy. So I guess it was probably inevitable that nothing in my day really seemed to flow properly. … Continued

30 Jun 2025

Thirsty

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Invertebrates, Warwickshire | 0

The heat today was toxic – though I’m aware that anyone trying to survive the current temperatures in Spain would have welcomed our high of 31°C as a blessed relief – and while I’ve never been very good at dealing … Continued

16 Jun 2025

Expected

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

What with one thing (Skomer) and another (taking care of the Boy Wonder last weekend) it was over a week since I’d last toured the local Odonata sites and recorded my findings, so this morning I drove up to Cleeve … Continued

1 Jul 2024

Skipping

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

After a dreary morning, late this afternoon the sky suddenly brightened, and it warmed up by several degrees. Within a couple of minutes the black horehound patch, which had been virtually deserted, filled with competing bees, butterflies, and hoverflies, and … Continued

11 Jul 2023

Relief

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

Photographing small, mobile subjects in poor light and strong, gusty wind really is a fool’s errand: I took around three hundred photos today, and I’ve kept nine of them. By early afternoon I hadn’t produced a single image I actually … Continued

2 Jul 2023

Small Skipper

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

Yesterday I took a walk around Tilly’s field, the hay meadow that’s about a hundred metres from our house, and found not only Small and Essex Skippers, but scores – maybe hundreds – of grasshoppers and crickets, in different stages … Continued

18 Jul 2022

Limp

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

When it’s so hot, even your proboscis goes limp. At 2pm today it was 38°C in the shade at the back of our house. By 4pm, when the sun had come round, the thermometer was measuring 46°, and we were … Continued

10 Jul 2022

Coiled

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

With our garden so baked and parched today that there was almost nothing moving in it, I ended up wandering back down to Tilly’s field to see what might be happening there, and found that the Skippers were still skipping … Continued

5 Jul 2022

Small

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

The weather was so dreary this morning that I didn’t bother even trying to go out looking for subjects, instead concentrating on trying to clear some of my backlog of unprocessed photo files, while waiting for the day to brighten, … Continued

6 Jul 2021

Small

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

My bug hunts today yielded two especially nice finds, either of which I’d have been very happy to blip. After the usual bout of indecision this evening, I’ve finally decided to post both of them. This is a pristine male … Continued