Now here's an Aussie caterpillar
Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:43:36 -0700 (PDT)
One of many festooning a yellow flowering bush in my front garden. The
most predominant butterfly in my area at Adelaide, Australia is the
cabbage white. Not sure if this is its caterpillar.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adelaide_australia_flora_and_fauna/
Sidney ...
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Ladybirds waiting
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:37:12 +0000 (GMT)
Normally we get dozens of ladybirds inside our house during the winter; this
hardly any. But there suddenly seem to be lots of them sunning around the
garden waiting for something.
We have some marigolds which are always affected by masses of blackfly but
these don't seem to attract ladybirds at all.
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Rod ...
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Ants galore!
Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:33:03 +0000 (GMT)
After cutting my modest sized lawn this afternoon I applied ant-killer to
between 60 and 70 small ant heaps (approx one per squre metre) beheaded by
the flymow. Nearly all had eggs and some had winged individuals.
I suspect that come a couple of hot days there is going to be a massive
swarming of frustrated ants ...
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Identify a ?caterpillar
Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:35:35 +0100
Please help identify a strange (to me) caterpillar. It is about 25mm
long, dirty grey in colour, hairy with long hairs, not furry, two
antennae(?) at one end, and spiky tail(?) at the other end. I found it
this morning on the jamb of the front door in my rural village street.
I have looked in the insect field ...
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Environmentalism in the early 70's
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 11:13:36 +0930
I can recall in the early 1970's a new housing estate
being built near to where I lived at Stockton-on-Tees,
prior to emigrating to Australia.
There was a small area of boggy, marshy land and when
I inspected it, the place was brimming with great
crested newts (Triturus cristatus cristatus)
Within a couple o ...
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Hornets
Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:52:48 -0700 (PDT)
Walking in farmland in West Sussex near Bosham a few weeks ago, I saw
some enormous torpedo-shaped chocolate-orange-coloured wasps. They
were zipping around the top of a very high thick hedge, chasing
butterflies away, and I realised I was seeing hornets for the first
time.
I thought they were rare and usually ...
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Interesting.....
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:51:10 +0100
For your edification!
I had a cracker of a shit last night. I woke up feeling as if a
thing with the same dimensions as an artic truck was pressing
down very hard on my rectal sphincters. It felt as though my
arse was about to explode. I managed to get my butt over the
lavy pan just in time. I thought my rectum ...
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Grey Squirrel - High as a Kite?
Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:25:09 +0100
A few days ago, my wife was walking through NE central London, through
one of the garden squares, and spotted a Grey Squirrel on the ground,
chewing away at what looked liked a roll-up.
Every 10-15 seconds, it dropped the roll-up, did a backward somersault
and then, whickers, ears and tail quivering, pick up the ...
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Harlequin Ladybirds
Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:21:42 +0100
I've looked for descriptions and at differences between these and our native
Ladybirds and I'm still not sure which ones larvae are all over our Broad
Beans....
http://www.harlequin-survey.org/recognition_and_distinction.htm#
Anyone got a foolproof way of telling them apart?
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Regards
Bob Hobden
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Insect ID
Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:35:50 +0100
Any idea what this is? Image taken at ~ 2000 m in Italian Alps, just S
of Aosta.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eeyore666/
I suspect it is a moth?
Larry ...
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