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By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
[...] it has a distinctive white zig-zag mark across its middle and, with its broad hind legs, it looks as if it's wearing flared trousers. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
[...] suddenly my eye is caught by a flick of yellow. Perched on the end of a leaf is a dung-fly. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
We are being invaded. I had not seen many harlequin ladybirds in my garden this year, but a few weeks ago I noticed that the larvae were climbing over the hedge from next door, in droves... Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
I though the four-year-old and his friend were being noisy on the trampoline, but they were not the source of the shrill screaming last Friday... Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
It's getting to that time of year when wasp behaviour changes. And as far as most people are concerned, it's a change for the worse... Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
[These curious toadstools] come with a health warning that they produce face-reddening, palpitations, tingling limbs, nausea and vomiting if combined with alcohol, even after two or three days... Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
The last few days we've had a toad wandering about near the back door. It ambled out from under the guinea-pig's carpet off-cut weather cover... Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
Each afternoon... we were visited by hummingbird hawkmoths at the honeysuckle flowers. But it took me a few days to realize the bumblebees were different. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
When we moved into our previous house, in Nunhead, there was some small, but well-established growth of Japanese knotweed in the back garden. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
The nuptial flight of ants is one of those phenomena that, if you are inside it, is really very spectacular. Continue reading...
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