Insect rambles

Wandering around, photographing insects...

Friday, 8 August 2025

Bees and Allotments

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[I wrote this for my local allotment newsletter, and it felt like as good a place as any to restart blogging!] I joined the allotmenteering ...
Sunday, 25 August 2019

A week on the Uists

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From time to time over the past five years on this blog I've mentioned my other half.  Well, after 15 months of planning and organising ...
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Thursday, 11 October 2018

Argh! ...Ladybirds!?

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It's a warm, still day in the first couple of weeks of October, time for... STD-ridden home-invading alien ladybirds migrating in from A...
Sunday, 30 July 2017

Why is the world's largest bee hotel like Glasgow's postwar regeneration?

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I was in Scotland last weekend to lead a couple of bumblebee ID training events.  As I needed to bring a fair bit of kit with me, I drove, a...
Monday, 12 June 2017

One day... one thousand species?

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Out in the wilds of the Lizard peninsula, the near-full moon was visible past the old windmill.  A brisk wind was whipping the grasses bac...
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Sunday, 2 October 2016

A while in the making

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My last blog seems a very long time ago now - and that's because it was, almost 20 months ago!  That particular blog was all about a tri...
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Saturday, 14 February 2015

A month in Malvern

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Six weeks into the new year, and things have finally calmed down enough to go for a wander around our new local area. Having moved to Malver...
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Richard is interested in biological recording and wildlife generally, but particularly in insects. His day job is running the science side of the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, particularly leading the Trust's bumblebee-monitoring citizen-science schemes, training volunteers in bee ID skills, and working to analyse the data gathered and apply the lessons to conservation work. Away from the day job, he is the Chair of the Worcestershire Biological Records Centre, and part of the national verification teams for the UK Ladybird Survey and the Bees, Wasps, and Ants Recording Society, as well as for several smaller beetle families. He was a co-lead on the national Garden BioBlitz project when this was running. He continues to regularly deliver training in insect identification and surveying, with a particular focus on bumblebees, ladybirds, and shieldbugs. He has also written a range of books on identification and natural history of these groups.
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