Went out for an excellent day of entomology with Trstan Bantock (http://britishbugs.org.uk/) today. Hartslock turned up the usual things but I did find a very…
A lovely sunny, warm day today so I drove out to BBOWT’s Warburg nature reserve near Bix, Henley-on-Thames. I hadn’t visited Warburg for years but…
I always like to go along to moth-trapping events and keep a good lookout for unusual tachinids that have been flushed out and drawn into…
Today I spent another very pleasant afternoon at my friend’s meadow in Cholsey. His local speciality is Asilus crabroniformis, the Hornet Robber fly, one of…
Today was forecast to be one of the few dry days of the coming week so I was determined to get out and do some…
I was really keen to take a trip down to Pamber Forest because at this time last year I had seen all kinds of interesting…
I was lucky enough to spend an afternoon at the Moscow Zoological Museum during my recent holiday in Russia. I concentrated on photographing as many…
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I made 2 quick visits to Moor Copse this weekend – the first was in light drizzle and the second was in full sun. On…
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In the afternoon I decided to head out to one of my favourite local nature reserves – Moor Copse. Despite being pestered by clegg flies…
It might sound like a strange question to ask an entomologist but a recent debate on bug_girl’s blog got me thinking. Obviously, I have no…
These photos are of my holdings (9 specimens) in the family Pantophthalmidae, originating from French Guiana and obtained partly from Philippe Soler (Le Planeur Bleu…
Ta Da!! I have finally arranged my palearctic specimens into their correct drawers – alphabetically by genus. It started off in 8 drawers but allowing…
Just received an update from Dr Owen Lewis, the manager of the Sturmia bella project, a project set up to investigate the role of Sturmia…
I decided not to avoid it any more and started organizing my Palearctic collection into glass-topped drawers and unit trays. This means bringing together my…
Just packaged up some flies to go back to Jari in Finland – he lent me some of his Malaise trapped tachinids to identify, with…
This is another really lovely tachinid of medium size but with everything very rounded. The head is similar to some of the Goniini and even…
This is really pretty little lauxanid with a lovely mottled wing pattern. This specimen has been donated to Steve Gaimari, who was kind enough to…