This weekend was the annual Dipterist’s Forum AGM and talks & workshops – held at the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London. I went along…

Went for a quick stroll round Moor Copse today to see the autumn colours. The leaves were just dropping but there were plenty of green…

I fancied a walk up a sunny hill today so I went over to The Holies, a local National Trust grassland reserve, overlooking the Thames…

Went for an end-of-season stroll through my local patch of old woodland today – I am still getting over a nasty virus (possibly Swine Flu)…

These are a few of the photos I took while going round the new Darwin Centre ‘cocoon’ at the Natural History Museum. I wasn’t sure…

Just for fun here’s a few shots taken in Dorset, of me in the field 🙂

Visited one of my favourite sites for entomology this afternoon on a fairly sunny, mild and windy day. It was a huge contrast with the…

The weather today was a bit windy and cloudy but in a sunny spell we went to Hook, near Beaminster and had a short walk…

The day started a little cloudy and windy but I decided to reexplore an area of Moor Copse that I had surveyed a few days…

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…