Vanessa atalanta – Jill Orme Photography

18 Jul 2023

A flutter of Admirals

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

R and I went to Stratford this morning to run errands and eat cake, and I offset the cake a little by taking a rapid walk down to Weir Brake lock in search of dragons. I didn’t find any, probably … Continued

9 Feb 2023

Basking

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

“Would you like your slippers on?” I enquired this morning, eyeing the Boy Wonder’s bare feet. “No,” he replied. “I don’t like them.” There was no arguing with that, though I felt mildly crushed (R and I having bought them … Continued

22 Nov 2022

Winter sun

by JDO | posted in: Birds, My garden, Wild animals, Worcestershire | 0

I wasn’t expecting this when I swathed myself in multiple layers, wrapped a scarf three times round my head, and tottered unsteadily out into the garden to look for victims subjects. I was pursuing a woundwort shieldbug, which was a … Continued

7 Oct 2022

Aberration

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

With storms forecast, I went out this morning to search the ivy hedges around the village for inverts before the rain arrived. It was already very windy, and my subjects were skittish, so most of the time I used my … Continued

19 Aug 2022

Migrant Hawker

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

I broke the 100-400 zoom back out of storage today, and went off to Stratford to see if I could get some flight shots of Migrant Hawkers. The sunshine came and went, and so did the hawkers – I know … Continued

8 Oct 2021

Skittish

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

The village was sunk in deep meteorological gloom today, and so was I. Guy Garvey once said that living in Manchester is mainly like being inside a Tupperware box with the lid on, and it struck me that being in … Continued

1 Oct 2021

Festive

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

After several minutes of careful consideration, I have decided that this – almost entirely definitely – is a birch shieldbug. There is a very similar species, commonly called the hawthorn shieldbug, and I have mixed them up in the past, … Continued

11 Aug 2021

Admirable

by JDO | posted in: Butterflies, Flowers and plants, Invertebrates, Wales | 0

On our way back from Cardiff and Tredegar yesterday we stopped in Monmouth and went into Waitrose to pick up one or two supplies, and the checkout cashier, asking about the camera equipment I was carrying, told us about a … Continued

18 Jul 2020

The Guv’nor

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

This is the Red Admiral who’s in charge of our wild garden. I’m not sure where he spends the early part of each day, but somewhere between 4pm and 5pm every afternoon he turns up and begins expelling undesirables from … Continued

10 Jul 2020

Horrified

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

I spent much of the afternoon stalking grasshoppers and crickets around the village. It isn’t fair, really, because they absolutely hate it – Orthoptera are so far down the food chain that almost everyone eats them, so the closer you … Continued

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