I have returned. Not that I went very far: my sister lured me to Hampshire with the promise of glow-worms. Wikipedia tells me that the glow worm we have in the UK is a species of firefly, but they don’t fly, or flash; the females are wingless, and sit in the grass glowing to attract [...]
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Bird of the Year 2007: best performances in a supporting role
5 January 2008 – 4:22 pm
Best Plant
There’s lots of choice here; I’ll just give a hat-tip to the big trees of Kew Gardens and Greenwich Park which I got over excited about in the autumn.
But most of the possibilities were in Crete. Crete has more species of plant than the UK, and a bundle of them are endemics. In spring, [...]
Well, it amused *me*.
5 September 2007 – 7:55 am
There’s a species of moth called a Lettuce Shark.
That is all.
Moths and meteorites
13 August 2007 – 2:12 pm
With National Moth Night and the Perseids, it should have been a good weekend for night-time stuff.
I didn’t have a lot of luck on either front. Really of course you need a moth trap to count moths effectively. I had a go at treacling—spreading a mix of treacle, brown sugar and rum on tree trunks [...]
Exciting moth news!
8 August 2007 – 4:32 pm
The moth in this picture isn’t particularly exciting, it’s just a rather scruffy Pyrausta aurata, sometimes called the mint moth. Mint is one of their foodplants, but so are its relatives like the oregano (or is that marjoram?) in the picture:
I didn’t get a picture of my exciting moth, which was a Jersey Tiger. Exciting [...]
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 [...]