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Mediterranea and Victoriana 24 Aug 2013 | 01:06 am
A miscellany from the last couple of days. Firstly a female Southern Oak Bush-cricket Meconema meridionale from south London today, one of many seen. These bush-crickets were discovered in Britain in ...
Micro-birding: 9 years working my patch 17 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
I almost never go birding any more but I can’t bear to let myself become a non-birder. So for the last 9 years I have been diligently working my local patch on an almost daily basis: my garden. It’s b...
Extinct no longer 17 Aug 2013 | 02:10 pm
The oldest book I own was published in 1839, and in it James Francis Stephens describes the distribution of Rhyssemus germanus with a few words: “Sandy coasts: near Bristol”. When the Canon Fowler wro...
My Ero 8 Jul 2013 | 01:44 pm
I caught a spider on the bedroom ceiling on Saturday and was about to chuck it out of the window when I noticed it had four pointy tubercles on its abdomen. There aren’t many spiders with abdominal tu...
Pan-species listing at Knepp 11 Jun 2013 | 12:28 am
The Knepp Estate in Sussex is my new favourite place in England. This is a landscape of woodlands, copses, rambling hedgerows, veteran trees, streams, ponds and lakes with herds of Longhorn Cattle and...
A day in the life … 24 May 2013 | 05:03 pm
… of an entomological consultant. Yesterday was a pretty typical day, surveying a site which is proposed for development. I’m not able to reveal the location but it is a site with a mix of unmanaged g...
May-hem 24 May 2013 | 03:55 pm
It’s been well over a month since my last blog (back on April 12th) but my excuse is that it is May, the best month to be a naturalist in the field in Britain, and a busy time for an entomological con...
Final results: Sandwich Bay Coleopterists’ Meeting 2012 12 Apr 2013 | 04:42 pm
I wrote a brief blog about this sunny and sociable weekend in Kent shortly after the event: here. I have now finished my identifications from the Sandwich Bay Coleopterists’ Meeting (31st August to 2...
My first alexiid! 9 Apr 2013 | 08:05 pm
It is a rare event nowadays for me to see a new beetle family but yesterday’s highlight was finding Sphaerosoma pilosum for the first time, the sole British member of family Alexiidae. Sphaerosoma pi...
A Ptenidium from Sandwich Bay 8 Apr 2013 | 06:51 pm
I am no great fan of the featherwing beetles (Ptiliidae) but they are growing on me and I’ve been trying hard to get to grips with the genus Ptenidium and others, though still largely ignoring the dre...
