So why bother dressing them up in period costume - people?

So, just watching ’The Other Bennett Sister’ and I see the Box Tree Moth was around in Jane Austen’s time! Oh dear.

Illustrations of grasshopper, cricket and earwig on the front cover of a book called Field Guide to the Grasshoppers and Allies of Great Britain and Ireland

🦗 This #WorldWildlifeDay, discover Britain's grasshoppers, crickets & allied species in a brilliant new field guide!

It's co-written by our former colleague Björn Beckmann with recording scheme coordinator Peter Sutton.

Allied species are earwigs, stick insects, mantids and cockroaches 🪳

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Thanks Sarah, I hope you get plenty of chances to put it to use in the next few months.

Pleased it’s finally out now, Stephen and good to hear you like it.

Thanks Claire.

Yes please, Steph, sorry.

Just received an advance hardback copy of ‘Dragonflies’ with masses of fantastic new photos, mostly by Steve Cham, and many new artworks. Also received, a reprint of ‘Bees’, both excellently printed in China.

Pleased you are pleased, Nick. Thanks for your endorsement.

Thanks Toon, hope you like this one.

Thanks Adrian

and thanks for your help, David.

G. bimaculatus can't survive British winters but would be a silly idea to randomly release any

Thanks Vanna

Official or unofficial, tell me more?

Glassy looking wings suggest a teneral female Banded Demoiselle

It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing

Yes, Alan, agree with Satellite.

It's my pocket guide to butterflies.

Unexpected 3rd brood Holly Blue in the garden this morning.

Thanks Marc. It will be available in the spring, just as the first dragons are emerging

Out in the spring, in time for the first dragonflies of the year

Proofs of Field Guide to Dragonflies & Damselflies of GB&I have arrived and look good. Written by Steve Brooks & Steve Cham with many new artworks, photos and detailed maps, make it the most complete guide to British Odonata. The 6th edition in 28 years

It seems that Robins are partial to Box Tree Moths!

Yes, the spider is a Xysticus, which doesn’t burrow or make a web. The holes have been excavated by wasps or bees.

Thanks Linden

Queen Alexandra's Birdwing - Ornithoptera alexandrae, the world's largest butterfly, male wingspan 19cm female 24 cm. Swallowtail - Papilio machaon, Britain's largest butterfly, wingspan 7cm. Print from a recent painting www.richardlewington.co.uk/album.php?id...

I've just added a few original invertebrate originals to my website www.richardlewington.co.uk/album.php?id...

It’s a Pieris species, I’d say Large White - Pieris brassicae

The holy grail this morning and then it was away - Clifden Nonpareil