I didn’t manage to get a shot which was as crisp as I’d like, but for the sake of completeness, here’s a Blue-tailed Damselfly:
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Damselflies
3 June 2006 – 5:53 pm
It’s remarkable how many different insect species there are around if you go and look, and notice the various colours and sizes instead of just thinking ‘butterfly’ or ‘bumblebee’. Damselflies are the smaller, more delicate relatives of dragonflies. There were at least three species, and possibly four, in the garden today. I got pictures of [...]
Creepy-crawly goodness
31 May 2006 – 8:55 am
If you like invertebrates (and who doesn’t?) check out the Circus of the Spineless at Burning Silo.
I take a casual interest in insects and other invertebrates, but one thing you quickly realise is that they’re really hard. I first really appreciated this when, quite pleased with myself for recognising something as a ’scorpionfly’, I tried [...]
Adela reaumurella
6 May 2006 – 2:24 pm
How did we ever get along without the internet to help us scratch those little itches of curiosity? Admittedly, most of them seem to be along the lines of “What have I seen that bloke in before? Oh, I see, he was in [embarrassingly awful sitcom I couldn't possibly admit to watching]“, but still.
Anyway, in [...]
After 200 million years of abstinence…
3 April 2006 – 1:45 pm
An interesting story about darwinulids. As far as anyone could tell, darwinulids (a type of crustacean) had been reproducing exclusively asexually for 200,000,000 years, but now a researcher has found 3 male specimens, which implies that at least one darwinulid species has sex.
Sex is a bit mysterious in evolutionary terms because it’s so much more [...]
a pensée
27 March 2006 – 11:01 am
Although my own main interest is birds, I think if I was advising someone on a natural-history related hobby to take up, I might suggest flowers or insects. I think it’s a great virtue to look closely at the little things. You miss the real action if you tromp through the hills, admiring the view [...]
Top ten animals - #1, Giant Squid
12 February 2006 – 4:47 pm
I said there was an invertebrate on my list, and here it is, what I thought was the world’s largest mollusc and the owner of the largest eyeball known to science: the Giant Squid, Architeuthis dux. Even the Latin name has a poetry to it. Except I discovered, while searching out details for this post, [...]
103 mutations of drosophila
3 February 2006 – 5:14 pm
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