The Fifth Beetle

This week work took me out to east Norfolk to visit a couple of projects, First off was a trip to Eccles-on-sea to see the work of protectin...

Whilst geting changed out of my running gear post-race last weekend in Llanberis, north Wales, this small staph landed on my sweaty kit. Luc...

Last week, while on a work trip to Dumfries and Galloway I visited the RSPB's Mersehead reserve. The weather was amazing and we had a gu...

It's been a while.... It's not that there hasn't been natural history happening. There has, but just not as much as usual and th...

So that's the end of 2022 and five months since my last post... Natural history has taken a bit of a back seat over the last few months ...

What a few days. Scary temperatures that shouldn't be seen in the UK. The land is dry, parched and in need of water and here in Canbridg...

Whilst cooking dinner tonight, I spied a small beetle on the ouside of the window pane. Potted and microscoped, it appears to be Scymnus aur...