The other day I heard a deep hum (sounding like that produced by a large bumblebee queen) and saw that it was came from a large green irides...

 I like insects that are a bit of a fieldwork challenge, and Essex Skippers are one of those. The Essex Skipper is a small butterfly with go...

  The Short-winged conehead looks very similar to its Long-winged relative. There are green and brown forms, both with a darker dorsal band....

I photographed my first Speckled Bush-cricket over 10 years ago, but it was an accidental photo of a nymph on a leaf with the insect I was a...

The Long-winged Conehead, together with the Roesel's featuring in the previous post, are the two most common bush-crickets in the UK now...