Literate herring, this way.

  My Emperor Moth cats are growing, 2nd instar now I think.

Long-finned Pilot Whales near Kirkwall, Orkney. Unfortunately it is thought one of these animals is injured, thus the behaviour. If you list...

It rained yesterday, I can't remember when it last did that here. I'd turned the MV off when I went to bed but left the two actinics...

I'd offered to help at a bio-blitz tomorrow afternoon but it's been cancelled. Pleased because what I'd really like to do is hea...

It's been cold and finding insects, especially hoverflies has been hard work. I've not had the moth traps out for a while and trying...

A mission to capture some snails for a colleague's lesson tomorrow resulted in some nice beetles including Bembidion tetracolum, Silpha ...

Get home on Friday from work and it's sunny and quite warm so sit down on one of outside seats, having a bit of a blether with Louise wh...

Here are some pictures that got missed off the other post, Yesnaby is a magic place so two visits in one day was no hardship.  Crane at...

So Friday afternoon, sitting in the sun in our wee (and very sheltered, the easterly continues to blow) flower garden trying again to shake ...

Until SS had pointed out my mididentification last week I had been blithely ignoring Red Chestnut for years (maybe). I think the problem wit...

I've got very behind with the blog as I've been out in the field and then identifying things, so I'm going to back-date a few po...