While spending some time in the garden pruning trees, deadheading and generally pottering around I have come across several species of shi...

A close up of a recently emerged forest shieldbug, Pentatoma rufipes, showing all its metallic shinyness.

 At this time of year it is hard not to notice Araneus diadematus , the garden spider. You walk through their orb webs when walking on pat...

After my encounter this morning with the basking Nursery web spiders, I popped back to the wildlife garden after a storm had passed and th...