Of all insect larvae I have come across, these have been the trickiest to spot. Red Lily Beetle adults were mating and laying eggs on m...

In the last three weeks, I have been coming across Lesser Stag Beetles ( Dorcus parallelipipedus ) dead on the pavements in my street. Jun...

The contrasting red background of a kids wheelbarrow, made it easy to spot the egg sac of this Neriene montana female. The yellow eggs ar...

  Neat rows of black aphids suck the sap of one of the stems of a Lesser Knapweed in the garden. This morning, I notice a hoverfly,   Syrp...

Precariously perched on a young oak branch, a Black Vine weevil, Otiorhynchus sulcatus , the first of the year. I am really not looking fo...