Insect rambles

Bees are getting a lot of press at the moment, much of it focused on the decline of the honeybee and the various reasons behind it.  But the...

“One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite...

Last weekend was a busy one.  Saturday was the first ever Shotover Conference , celebrating almost 200 years of biological recording at Shot...

The weekend before Easter was a bit of a change - for once, the main targets for sightseeing weren't some of the UK's 40,000 invert...

I've had a productive couple of weeks for wildlife-spotting - spring is properly here and the insects in particular are responding to t...

Another expedition this week, venturing further north than I've ever been before - to Wick, Caithness, in the very top right corner of S...

A slight diversion this week, and a step back in time to one of my former local patches.  When I first moved to Oxfordshire, in 2008, I liv...