The moths are back in town

17Jun08

Ooh, the excitement today – spotted and snapped one of the first few moths of the year on the old moth wall.  I think this is a lime-speck pug moth, but I could be wrong.
Hopefully this bodes well for the coming summer.  I’ve been thinking lately about putting out a moth trap in the garden [...]

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The ladybird tree

29Nov07

Yesterday’s moth has moved – (s)he is still hanging round on the moth wall though…  Today I spotted a tree which was crawling with ladybirds.  I got a few snaps, but the sweet little creatures were all running around and they all seem to be shot at slightly weird angles.
I’m off to London for the [...]

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More action from the moth wall

28Nov07

The title is slightly misleading – more inaction from the moth wall is more appropriate. This little lovey has been hanging around in the same spot all week. I wonder if (s)he has passed over to the other side. Not the most exciting beastie in the world to look at, but it [...]

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What big eyes you have

29Oct07

One from the archives today. Well, it feels like a long time ago since we were in Japan, although in truth it has only been a month or so since we returned. This is one of the many, many dragonflies that we saw on our visit, posing for the camera at Nikko.
Today’s eye [...]

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Year of the Moth

30Sep07

The leaves are officially falling from the trees…. I saw it with my own eyes when we took a stroll in the wet Devonshire countryside this morning.  For me this year has been the year of the moth – the year when I stopped seeing them as something to dodge in an Italian toilet (putting [...]

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A friend from the garden

26Aug07

I think this garden spider has either been eaten or chased away by the house spider who has a house next door.
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling a bit blue about the news that this current spell of sunny weather is ‘the last gasp of summer’. Outside earlier there were a group [...]

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Happy hopper

23Aug07

Do grasshoppers have emotions? This one was heading up a wall at work yesterday. I was certainly happy, snapping away in the lunchtime sunshine. I’m not too sure what kind of grasshopper it is, but this is just another one of the creatures that I used to be scared of which I [...]

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Ghostly beastie

20Aug07

Is summer over now?  I’m wearing knee-high socks under my jeans in an attempt to keep some heat about me.  It was raining most of the weekend, and it didn’t stop till this evening.  Because I’m a fair weather photographer, I therefore have no new shots of the weird and colourful world around me.  [...]

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Black Arches moth

09Aug07

Spotted on one of the walls outside work today, a black arches moth.  Another beauty.  And also, smaller but no less interesting, this little chap:

I’ve no idea what this one is.  It was a great deal smaller than the black arches, and it took me long enough to identify that one (even with its distinguished [...]

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More creepy crawlies

07Aug07

Especially for my mum who loves creepy crawlies… erm, not! Sorry mum! On the left a lovely forest bug, whose path we crossed on Sunday on the Grand Western canal. And on the right a teeny tiny snail spotted sliming its way up the wall at work.
Also spotted today: black nightshade. [...]

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