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The upside of a domestic catastrophe.
- Added on: May 4th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: domesticdisaster
- Listed in: Insects Home and Garden
- Tags: Housekeeping insects butterflies moths
Recent Posts
Later summer, bit of a flourish
During the middle of the week when the weather was warmer and calmer traffic levels were up slightly but not by as much as I had hoped. I have lots of drunken hoverflies and the occasional sozzled Red Admiral making merry beneath the Victoria Plum ...
A week’s worth (or thereabouts)
Although the weather here has been reasonable – not actually warm let alone hot but fairly bright and with light winds, the moth visitation level has dropped right away. In terms of number of individuals and variety of species things are way do...
On a warm(ish) evening
Actually, a couple of evenings; the pickings are too lean to justify frenetic blogging each morning. But last night, though the numbers were not high I had a disproportionate number of new species. They were all rather small though mostly classified ...
In fact, some moths
Between them the past two days have produced a crop of moths almost worth mentioning and one really tremendous find. The weather has been calmer and warmer, in fact quite humid and the forecast out until the end of the month is good so I might yet ex...
Not moths but…
The lack of posting shouldn’t be taken to reflect a diminution in my attentiveness. But there are only so many photographs of hoverflies I can bring myself to take. Conditions are distinctly mild but not actually cold, and rather damp. Not asto...
July 2009 digest
What a strange month July was. A mixture of the scarce and notable on the one hand, some nights when I could barely keep up, and a long barren patch at the end. Since about the twentieth of the month the number of species on any day has failed to r...
