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By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
12 September 2012
We have leaf-cutter bees nesting in the wind chimes. These, however, being bamboo, never so much chimed as clonked. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
29 August 2012
“It’s either a really big moth, or there’s a bat in the bedroom,” So I was woken from deep sleep into the deep blackness of our French holiday gite, just over a week ago. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
15 August 2012
The marvel of glow-worms, and their New World equivalents the fire-flies,
has entered popular mythology. Is it any wonder? Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
01 August 2012
I’ve just submitted my two online reports for this year’s Big Butterfly Count. I know, from the start, that this is going to be a good year for gatekeepers. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
18 July 2012
Ragwort is a native plant, and its biodiversity importance rests on its food-plant status for over 30 insect species. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
04 July 2012
[...] pond snails are much more delicate than their terrestrial counterparts — slimmer and more elegant. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
20 June 2012
[...] when a flock of ring-necked parakeets screech their way over the chimney pots, I may as well be looking up at a squadron of flying saucers. They are so very alien. Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
06 June 2012
Sitting in the kitchen, chatting to teenage daughter before bed, she suddenly interrupted the conversation with: “That was a stag beetle, wasn’t it?” Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Grow & eat
22 May 2012
The rosemary beetle is so deliciously beautiful, how could it possibly be considered a garden pest? Continue reading...
By Richard Jones in
Wildlife
08 May 2012
[...] as soon as the sun leaks through the cloud, I latch onto any movement in the garden. I’m relieved that, today, it’s wasps and bees. Continue reading...
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