This summer it appears to be a bumper year for Migrant Hawkers. Their sudden appearance in several places with several individuals present, ...

Emperors ( Anax imperator ) have done very well this year in my local area, which has allowed me to become familiar with the different behav...

I kneeled down and crept closer. The butterfly stood tiptoeing exposing its wings fully to the low afternoon sun, warming up. I was on th...

This morning I watched several males of the Small Red-eyed damselfly at North Cave Wetlands, a YWT nature reserve with a diversity of la...

Marmalade flies,  Episyrphus balteatus , are the most common British hoverfly, and can be seen year round as they are able to overwinter a...

The afternoon was sunny and pleasant as me and my daughter were walking home from school. We had stopped to watch a tight cluster of gar...

This Angle Shades moth,  Phlogophora meticulosa , caught the attention of my 8 yr old while it rested on dark moss. Angle Shades are very ...

When it comes to invertebrates, very odd ideas can circulate even in scientific circles. One of such is called 'The Pied Piper' ef...

At this time of the year, my garden - which hasn't got a pond - hosts occasional dragonflies as they migrate to warmer climates. The m...

We've had a couple of frosts in the last few days. Despite the die-hards which allow me to post occasionally these days, most insect s...

The Migrant Hawker, Aeshna mixta,  is one of the commonest dragonflies found away from water. It regularly visits my pond-less garden, wit...

The mass influx events of Painted Ladies - such as during the summer of 2009 - and wildlife documentaries on the Monarch Butterfly have ma...

This large, striking bug entered the house at night through an opened window. It is the alien species  Leptoglossus occidentalis, the West...

This hoverfly species, Scaeva pyrastri , is a challenging photographic subject. I find it particularly flighty, and many a time I have chase...

A business and a swarm, are the collective terms for flies, in this case, hoverflies. In the last few days, hoverflies, particularly the M...

For a week I have been watching hawker dragonflies hunting over the garden well into the evening. They fly high (3-5 m) and never seem to st...